Did you know the electoral college is the way we as a country select our president and has 435 votes in total? The electoral college was established in 1787 to consider many methods to elect the president and was originally called the Constitutional Convention. The electoral college should be changed even though many people think it’s a successful method of how we pick our president. The main reasons are that it causes confusion in the ballots and it is corrupt, there’s an unfair amount or representation in the number of votes per state, and if there is no majority then the House of Representatives decides the leader of our country instead of the people. The primary reason the electoral college is due to the confusion of the ballots in some polling stations or corruption within a state’s voting. In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the election because he won Florida in a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court case decision (Document 6). This decision could show the corruption due to the party affiliation of the judges or who they voted for in the election. The reason that this case went to …show more content…
The smaller states or the less populated states have less voters, which is unfair to the smaller or less populated states. Traditionally big states or states with greater population like California, New York, or Texas traditionally vote for a certain party (Document 7) so they can really make a huge influence while the smaller or less populated states do not have as great of an impact due to the lack of amount of votes. The smaller states or less populated states want equality in the amount of power in say in the government (Document 4) because they feel like their number of votes matter just as much as the bigger or more populated states. The amount of votes for each state should be equal so not one state who traditionally voted in the past for a party does not have power over the