No. I don't totally come to a conclusion that the electoral collage system is a valid way to elect the president. I do agree that sections of the whole system has a positive effect on the voting, but there are many other points I don't necessarily agree with. I believe that the bad things over power the good things, but only just by a little. That is not what we want. I think if we make a few minor changes that are based on the problems that we are facing today, the electoral collage system would work wonderfully.
Even though the amount of electors per state is based on their own states population, I don't feel like this is a good choice. This part of the system still gives the larger states more power, we don’t want that. People say that this system is making the vote “fair” and that “everyone’s voice is being heard”, but that’s not the case to me. I think that this system is letting the small states get pretty much left out of the vote, their voices aren't nearly as heard and large states. For this reason, I feel bad for the smaller states and think that we need to change this in some sort of way.
I don't just feel bad for the smaller states, but also the large ones. There are so many voices to be heard in a large state. Lets say you lived in one of the bigger states. How would it feel to have your vote not really impact the final decision on who is chosen? Who gets elected is important business to me, so I know I that wouldn't make me the happiest person. Also, in the smaller states, they are able to meet and talk to their candidates without a struggle. There ability to meet the candidates allows the people to talk about how strongly they believe in their decision. But in the larger states it would become difficult to meet your candidates. There would be too many other people trying to talk to them, that your chance to meet them would become scarce.
In 2000, on election day, 50,996,039 people voted for Al Gore. He received 539,898 more votes than George W. Bush, so the vote was passed over to the Electoral Collage. There were more Bush supporters in the Electoral College, so George ended up winning by 5 votes. The vote was so close in both situations. If there was a certain majority of the votes that was required for a person to be elected, who knows who would have actually have been voted as president. This was not the right way to elect our president, a numerous amount of peoples voices weren't heard that day and many people were displeased. A different president could change everything, so why would we decide on who plays that role with only a difference on 5 votes, it just doesn't make since.
Now a days, we have technology. Technology plays a giant role in our lives, we use them everyday for so many reasons. Because of these wonderful sources, it's extremely easy to learn all things about who the candidates are and why we should vote for them and not someone else. Today, we have phones, computers, televisions, news papers, billboards and mail to inform us. Back then, they didn't have any of this, they couldn't learn the information they needed to know to make a vote that was actually meaningful. Now, we don't need to worry about being low on information to cast a good vote, its all just a click away.
Before this system worked wonderfully, everything was organized and nothing bad was bound to happen. But now we need to make a change. If we stay with these old techniques, people will become very unhappy. We need to make some changes in this system, all we need to do is slowly start the process of making some new adjustments.
Even though the amount of electors per state is based on their own states population, I don't feel like this is a good choice. This part of the system still gives the larger states more power, we don’t want that. People say that this system is making the vote “fair” and that “everyone’s voice is being heard”, but that’s not the case to me. I think that this system is letting the small states get pretty much left out of the vote, their voices aren't nearly as heard and large states. For this reason, I feel bad for the smaller states and think that we need to change this in some sort of way.
I don't just feel bad for the smaller states, but also the large ones. There are so many voices to be heard in a large state. Lets say you lived in one of the bigger states. How would it feel to have your vote not really impact the final decision on who is chosen? Who gets elected is important business to me, so I know I that wouldn't make me the happiest person. Also, in the smaller states, they are able to meet and talk to their candidates without a struggle. There ability to meet the candidates allows the people to talk about how strongly they believe in their decision. But in the larger states it would become difficult to meet your candidates. There would be too many other people trying to talk to them, that your chance to meet them would become scarce.
In 2000, on election day, 50,996,039 people voted for Al Gore. He received 539,898 more votes than George W. Bush, so the vote was passed over to the Electoral Collage. There were more Bush supporters in the Electoral College, so George ended up winning by 5 votes. The vote was so close in both situations. If there was a certain majority of the votes that was required for a person to be elected, who knows who would have actually have been voted as president. This was not the right way to elect our president, a numerous amount of peoples voices weren't heard that day and many people were displeased. A different president could change everything, so why would we decide on who plays that role with only a difference on 5 votes, it just doesn't make since.
Now a days, we have technology. Technology plays a giant role in our lives, we use them everyday for so many reasons. Because of these wonderful sources, it's extremely easy to learn all things about who the candidates are and why we should vote for them and not someone else. Today, we have phones, computers, televisions, news papers, billboards and mail to inform us. Back then, they didn't have any of this, they couldn't learn the information they needed to know to make a vote that was actually meaningful. Now, we don't need to worry about being low on information to cast a good vote, its all just a click away.
Before this system worked wonderfully, everything was organized and nothing bad was bound to happen. But now we need to make a change. If we stay with these old techniques, people will become very unhappy. We need to make some changes in this system, all we need to do is slowly start the process of making some new adjustments.
