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If America wants to say that they are a democracy, then they need to abolish the Electoral College.
The basis behind democracy is that a leader is elected based on the popular vote. Plus, the
representatives don't always vote for the candidate that their district decided to elect. Take for
example the district in Minnesota that voted for John Edwards in 2004 even though he wasn't running
for President. This is stupid, abolishment needed. |
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The Electoral Colleges allow people to win the presidency without winning the popular vote. That's
bs imo. |
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Keeping the speed of today’s life in mind, I believe that the electoral colleges are no such a
thing which should be abolished as it has no longer impact or necessity. These electoral colleges
were introduced long before for the best interest in public. But as the decades past these electoral
colleges lost their inevitability although some small numbers of people still vote for the existence
of these electoral colleges. But is it justified to disobey the opinion of the larger mass from that
small number of people? I think the people who possess the modern mind should vote for the
termination of these electoral colleges without leaving any dilemma in their mind which can lead to
remake of judgment to those small number of people too. |
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Yes, it's time |
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Get rid of the electoral college. Let the people decide by popular vote! |
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The Electoral College must be eliminated before the next election. I also believe there must be a
standard for the way that states decide who receives the delegate votes in every state. Neither
represents the votes of the people.
When the Electoral College was first set up, those that made it constitutional did not believe that
the people were intelligent enough to make good decisions---the same reason that they counted slaves
and other black people were less than a whole person.
If it takes a constitutional amendment instead of Congressional bill signed by the President, then
the people must do what is possible to make the change. If it requires only a bill and signature,
then Congress must be pressured now to climate the Electoral College NOW. Let the Supreme Court
decide.
Every year that the election is over, there is a world of discontent by the people against the fact
that there is an Electoral College.
It would seem that both Democrats and Republicans would support such a decision.
Congress must act now to get the process started so that it can make the change immediately. I know
it probably can't go into effect for the November election, but by having the process underway, when
November voters are once again angry about the use of Electoral College they will know that Congress
is determined to eliminate it.
Someway, we must put pressure on Congress now. |
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The Electoral College needs to be abolished from the American voting system. There is no purpose and
the vote should be from the American people, not appointed delegates. People in this country need to
be involved in the political process and opting for a popular vote may generate interest in that
process which is a fundamental right granted to the people in the Constitution. |
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I completely agree that the electoral college is unnecessary because it make the popular vote
pointless. Gore one the election but because of electoral college bush won.
The electoral college was made back in a time when people were unbelievably ignorant and needed
more educated people to make their chooses for them.
Time are different and now most people at particularly have some knowledge the way the government
work negates the use for an electoral college. Vote representation are deviated from they were
because the electoral college |
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I totally agree. Until it happened with Bush/Gore, I thought the next time it happened the Supreme
Court would rule with the popular vote. It seems that the popular vote means nothing. Why should
anyone vote either way in the presidential race? |
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Electoral colleges are no longer a necessary part of our government processes because the real
reason behind an election is to have the popular vote.
Because of the electoral colleges, the people do not really decide who wins the presidency; Al Gore
won the popular vote in 2000 against GW Bush, but lost in the electoral colleges. The people were
misrepresented.
Electoral colleges should be permanently removed from our system of government due to their lack of
purpose. |
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If you are against the electoral process, then you must be against the senate in principle too.
The framers feared that there would be a simple majority rule. The electoral college was really
about states rights. A subject that was very important at the time of the writing of the
constitution. The fear was that states with large cities would overtake states and populations that
are more sparse. The issues of large populations are different from those of more less populated
areas, and they understood that.
The idea that it was about the logistics of getting the votes counted were not the issue.
Another quick note. In 2004 the democrats changed their desire to get rid of the electoral college
because if Kerry were to challenge the vote it would be based purely on that. There would be no
challenge to the popular vote, he conceded that, but there was some question in the minds of some
democrats that a challenge could be made at the electoral college level. |
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I disagree. Look at what would have happened in 2000. If we had abandoned the electoral college
before 2000 and tried to elect our president based on the nation-wide popular vote, we could have
ended up with the nation wide popular vote being as close as Florida was in 2000. If the nation-wide
spread in the popular vote was 435 votes then every single polling booth across the nation would be
called into question. And anyone who has watched election coverage before knows that irregularities
are common and normal. At least using the electoral college forces any recounts to focus on only the
states that were super-close.
The other good thing about the electoral college is that it retains one of this country's
foundational compromises. The number of electoral college delegates that each state gets is exactly
equal to how many members of congress that stat has. And so states with smaller populations have
disproportionately large representation because the electoral college honors their "statehood". It
may be archaic, but it isn't really all that obstructive to the democratic process. |
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02 Feb 2008 05:15
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