Essay On The Electoral College

The Electoral College was originally created by the founding fathers of the United States and put in the constitution. It consists of 538 electors, these ultimately decided who become the president and vice president of the United States. The Electoral College is a process of electors voting and congress counting those electoral votes.

The Electoral College was created for two reasons, to create a buffer in between the population and the selection of the president and the government felt it gave more power to smaller states (Schulman). The first reason was put into place because the government feared that someone could come into the picture and persuade the population to elect them and they would be a tyrant that would completely change the country. The founders wanted to make sure that the United States would have a qualified presidential leader. They did not want the population to be manipulated and duped into electing the wrong leader. The founders feared that the population would not be able to elect the right person so they put the Electoral College into place. Founders also worried about the smaller states not having as much of a say in who become president and because of the Electoral College. Under the Electoral College each state has at least three representatives which is the least amount they can have as a representative in

The number of electors varies for each state, the number each state receives is based off the census. (“What is the Electoral College?”) The census is a system in which the government accounts for each person in every resident throughout the United States (“What is the Census?”). The government then determines how many electoral votes each state gets based on the number of people in each of those states. The census takes place every ten years and lasts for three presidential elections. (“What is the