Why we need a new election system.
Date Submitted: 09/18/2002 18:31:44
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 3 pages (821 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 3 pages (821 words)
Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution mandates that the President be elected by means of an electoral college. Each state is allowed a certain number of "electors" (the state's number of Representatives plus its Senators), who then vote for the President. The electors vote based on the state's distribution of the popular vote. Most state constitutions award votes on a winner-take-all basis. For instance, if two-thirds of a state's public vote for a …
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…least in this country): the right to self-governance, a right on which this nation is built.
The Electoral College is unfair, inaccurate, and unaccountable. Its abolition is the only path to a true American Democracy. The public and its attitudes have changed since the framing of the Constitution. The American "democracy" has existed for over 200 years, and citizens are ready, as they have been for decades, if not centuries, to finally control their own country.
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