Citizenship

My essay about abolishing the Electoral College:

Do you think elections are fair? I don't think so. What is the Electoral College? It is a system where the president and vice president are chosen indirectly. The Electoral College works like this: Every state and D.C. get one electoral vote per each one of their US senators and representatives. For example, California, the largest and most populated state, has 53 members of the House and 2 senators, bringing the state's total electoral votes to 55. Each state has a "slate of electors" for each presidential candidate. When citizens vote in the presidential election, who they're really voting for is the slate of electors. In 48 states and D.C., whichever candidate wins the most votes, they win the state's electoral votes. This is what is called the "winner-take-all" method. A candidate must receive a majority (one more than half) of the electoral votes to be declared the president. If no one obtains a majority, it is up to the US House of Representatives to select the president from the top three contenders. In this case, each state gets one vote. This brings me to the question: Should the Electoral College be abolished? Well, my dear audience, let me tell you about it! I believe this for three reasons: you can't win the election if you have less than half the electoral votes, each state has a different population, and the popular vote doesn't matter in a winner-take-all system. 

One reason the Electoral College should be abolished is that there were 538 total electors in the US as of 2012, and you need 270 electoral votes to win the election. You need half of the electoral votes to win, right? Well, let's do some simple math: 538 divided by 2 is 269. That means that the other half is 270.

My second reason why the Electoral College should be abolished is that each state has a different population. Having only one vote is not correct. Plus, the elections vary in numbers every year. For example, the 2012 election's numbers are different from the 2013 election's.

My last reason why the Electoral College should be abolished is that the popular vote doesn't matter in the winner-take-all system. For instance, in the 2016 election, Trump did not win the popular vote, but he won the electoral vote; Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. My point is that the popular vote doesn't matter at all!

Although the Electoral College should not be abolished because it holds our country together like glue. But that still doesn't change my mind about how terrible it truly is! In the end, the Electoral College should be abolished because it is a thing. After all, the founding fathers thought we were the stupid to make our own decisions.

In the end I learned that the Electoral College is stupid and dump! I hate it!