This research paper will be informative about the Electoral College and it's operations, historical.
development, weaknesses of the system, and proposed changes. This paper will go into the.
depths of how and why it is still in use to this day. The purpose is to report to the voters of this.
country and to teach them the basis of our voting heritage. .
The Electoral College was developed because of the problem that our founding fathers.
faced on the difficult question of how to elect a president in an emerging nation. The nation was.
composed of thirteen large and small states jealous of their own rights and powers and suspicious.
of any central government. The U.S. contained only 4 million people spread up and down a.
thousand miles of Atlantic seaboard barely connected by transportation or communication.
(making national campaigns impossible). As well as our nation's framers felt that gentlemen.
should not campaign for public office ( The saying was, "The office should seek the man, the.
man should not seek the office.") (Abbott, 7).
In the operations of the electoral college in our current nation, there are 538 electoral.
college voters, and a majority of 270 is needed to win the presidency.(N.A.R.A) By decision of.
Congress, the electors meet to vote simultaneously in all the states, on the first Monday after the.
second Wednesday in December of presidential election years. On January 6, following the.
meeting of the electors, their votes are counted in the presence of a joint session of Congress. If.
a candidate gets more than half the votes, he or she will become the new president. If there is no.
majority, then the election goes to the House of Representatives. There each state is given one.
vote where they vote on the top three candidates. If a candidate gets a majority vote, then he or.
she will become president. If not, they are to continue voting until a majority is reached and the.
speaker of the house will become a temporary president until a majority is reached.
