If college and the Electoral College have anything in common, it is that they both throw away the importance of what was once important. Grades have less value in college; popular votes, as in the public’s votes, have less value in the Electoral College. Nonetheless, both have a plethora of differences, a major one being that no one wants to terminate college whereas the fate of the Electoral College is hotly debated. Should the Electoral College be abolished? To conclude an answer, one should understand the functionalities of it. The Electoral College is a process, penned by the Founding Fathers hundreds of years ago, that is used to determine the United States’ President and vice-president indirectly. Each state will receive a certain amount …show more content…
A combination of the electoral votes of the 12 smallest states and D.C. would generally sound as if it is very large in comparison to Illinois’ electoral votes, which is true as there is a 44 to 20 ratio. Despite this, one can easily see the unfair imbalance in electoral votes when they consider that Illinois has a greater population at 12,830,632 compared to the combination’s 12,500,722 (Doc D). This evidence clearly demonstrates that the smaller states’ electoral votes have more value than those of larger states and that the value of an electoral vote does not hold true throughout the nation. Additionally, larger states tend to be more susceptible to close elections than small states, so it is much easier to come to a consensus in small state elections. This gives those in less populated states more influence on the outcome of their state’s popular election, who their electoral votes go to, and inevitably the result of the presidential election. Furthermore, this depicts that the opinions of those in less populous states have more of an impact on the overall election than those in larger states and thus continues to demonstrates that the Electoral College is unfair in its distribution of power. By valuing certain states over others and inevitably certain citizens over others, the Electoral College does not equally represent all of America’s states and should consequently be