The Electoral College

I think that the Electoral College is no longer a valid way to elect the president because it doesn’t reflect the popular vote.  The Electoral College system takes the majority of the population’s votes and gives Electoral votes to the Presidential nominee nominated by the majority.  If the citizens that are the voting minority are almost equal to the citizens that are the voting majority in large states and the presidential nominee wins small states then the presidential nominee can get the majority vote in the nation, but lose the electoral college, because the large state hold the most electoral votes. Every persons vote should count not just large states electoral votes.  To win an electoral vote of 270 a candidate would only need to win the 12 largest electoral vote states.  That is approximately one-fourth of the U.S. to win the election and this is not fair to the voters of our country nor does it reflect the popular vote.  

I believe from the information I have read concerning the Election of 2000 that President Bush won fairly and followed the process set forth by the framers of the constitution. This was an interesting election.  Clearly, Al Gore won the popular vote by .5% and George W. Bush won the Electoral votes by 1. 

The Electoral System is set up to give the people a way to vote their preference on a Presidential Candidate without having to count thousands of ballots and travel hundreds of miles.  It was designed by the founding fathers to allow a small amount of people to come together and vote for a presidential candidate without having to support or vote for the state candidate where they lived.  

The founding Fathers did not count on the massive communication and technological advances and the growing population of the United State that is prevalent today. They did not expect political parties to appear and nominate presidential candidates. they designed a system that they could easily manage and hopefully fail most of the time so that the election would be sent to congress. Now in the twenty-first century the system is still working yet, I believe it is highly out dated.  It rarely, presents the popular vote.  I believe that our founding fathers were trying to establish a system based on popular vote.

 In conclusion, the electoral system should be replaced by a popular vote system where everyones vote is counted and counts.