"The Electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President" (Amendment XII: to Article II, Section 3 of U.S. Constitution). These words would differentiate the United States from all other countries in the world. The Electoral College consists of a group of people called Electors, which submit votes for one candidate in each state. All of this is because the United States is a republic. Maine and Nebraska are, however, different. They work under a democratic system, rather than the republican system most states use. (national issues.com - Electoral College ÃÂ©2000). In order to better serve our democracy, the Electoral College should be amended so that their votes are rationally divided, in each state, among the candidates running for President.
Critics argue that an amendment to the Electoral College would be impossible to enact: members of Congress have proposed it several times before (Facts on File: Issues and Controversies - The Electoral College - A History of Electoral Chaos ÃÂ©2000).
The Electoral College should not be removed - it should be made more fair by changing it from a winner-take-all system, in which the majority winner from each state wins all of that state's electoral votes, to a more democratic system in which the votes in a state are divided among the candidates. Otherwise, the system will stay, for the most part, republican (national issues.com - Electoral College ÃÂ©2000). It is unfair, as the loser of the popular vote can win the election. If there are only two candidates and one gets forty-nine percent of the popular vote in a state, he or she loses the election in that state (Schnider, "Florida Saved the Electoral College," National Journal Issue #6, Vol. #33, 2001)
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