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A Real Women

 

             Buren 1.
             Outdated Process of Electoral College.
             It became apparent during our most recent presidential election the need .
             to abolish the Electoral College. The idea of an Electoral College has become an .
             outdated process that Michael L. Young, the director of the Center for Survey .
             Research at Pennsylvania State University, calls an "archaic, anti-democratic and .
             confusing system used to elect the president" (Young 35).
             The Electoral College was supposed to be a two-step process. First, the .
             electors chosen in each state would nominate the presidential candidates; then .
             the House would vote to choose the president from these five with each state .
             getting one vote. When the Electoral College was proposed in 1787, it was a .
             compromise between popular elections, in which large states would dominate, .
             and an elite Congressional election, which could produce under-handed political .
             deals. However, with the unforeseen emergence of the political parties, and the .
             expansion of the people eligible to vote the original idea for the Electoral College .
             became altered (Young 36- 37).
             Today the way the Electoral College vote works is each state gets to cast a .
             number of votes that equals the sum of the states senators and representatives. .
             Every state has at least one House representative and two senators, this means .
             that even small states have at least 3 votes. In the Electoral process Washington, .
             DC is considered a small state and has 3 college votes. A larger state is California .
             with 54 votes. By tradition and state law, the process is a winner takes all system .
             Buren 2.
             in which the vote of the Electoral College is supposed to reflect the winner of the .
             popular vote in that particular state, by giving the winner of the popular vote a .
             block vote from the Electoral College. However, that does not always happen as .
             we experienced during the election of 2000.
             (Adams).


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