Criticisms Of The Electoral College

In this paper four subjects on the Electoral College will be addressed. These four subjects are: What is the Electoral College? Why did the founding fathers create the Electoral College? What are some major criticisms of the Electoral College? Should we keep it? Before these questions are addressed it should be noted that many people were not aware of the existence of the Electoral College, perhaps even the Author of this paper.
What is the Electoral College? Well for one, it isn’t a college, nor a place at all. The Electoral College is a process. What process? It is the process of choosing a president. “You mean when America votes for a president?” someone such as the reader might ask. Close but no, not exactly, The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who then vote in a president. When A Patriotic citizen, also known as a voter, votes on his or her president and in turn voting for that presidents electors. There are 538 electors in total. The amount of electors depends on the number of congressmen plus three. There are 435 members of the house of representatives, one-hundred senators,

Well, It is clear that a system of delegation such as the Electoral College is needed. However, perhaps the Electoral College isn’t the way to go. Or maybe the Electoral College could be improved upon. It certainly has its problems but ultimately the U.S is better off with it. It allows for the minority interests to be herd. It contributes to the more even cohesiveness of the country by utilizing a distribution of popular support to be elected president. The biggest problem is that Americans think that issues have simple answers such as “Should we keep the electoral college?” When in reality, it is almost never a simple yes or no question. That is one of the reasons the Electoral College exists. It will continue to be needed until the average American can understand these issues, get involved, and make reasonable choices about its