If you choose to keep it, how should it be reformed to make it better.
If you choose to abolish it, talk about the major problems.
(5 pts)
Mrs. Daloia - Room 124 |
Choose a side: keep the electoral college or abolish it all together.
If you choose to keep it, how should it be reformed to make it better. If you choose to abolish it, talk about the major problems. (5 pts)
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Lauren Starr
4/16/2018 06:38:39 am
The Electoral College needs to be reformed to make votes proportional to the population and the popular vote in the state. It's not fair that winner takes all, especially in a state where the vote is extremely close. The only problem with this idea is that candidates would have to spend more time and money in every state to make sure that they get both the popular and electoral votes.
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Payton Fremer
4/16/2018 06:40:54 am
I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished completely. I think that our president should be elected based on the popular vote. In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton gained the popular vote (65,844,610 votes) which means she had more votes than Trump (62,979,636 votes). Trump was elected because he had 306 electoral votes while Clinton only had 232. Meanwhile, more people throughout the United States wanted Clinton as president and showed out to vote for her. Electing our president primarily off the popular vote would satisfy more people in the US
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Jill Yeates
4/16/2018 06:41:56 am
I believe the Electoral College should be kept, but reformed. To better the system, I believe the Electoral College should use representational popular vote. In this system, the electoral votes for each state would be given in proportion to the popular vote. For example, Clinton won the popular vote over President Trump, but President Trump won the election. If the system used is proportional, the popular vote winner will win the election, and the president would be who the people want. Also, in the 2016 election, nobody won the majority, and using the representational electoral system would fix that.
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Alexa Fury
4/16/2018 06:42:02 am
In my opinion, I believe that the electoral college should be reformed in a way to make the vote of the people weigh more and it should go by the number of individuals to fix the electoral college and make it more proportional.
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Jimmy Abbio
4/16/2018 06:42:30 am
I am on the side of keeping the electoral college because they are an important element into our voting system and it allows for not only the people to vote for who they want, but allow a candidate that did not get a popular vote to still win by having each state pay a contribution to a candidates vote. A way it could be changed for the better is to have each electoral vote be assigned to a specific amount of votes for example each 150,000 votes count as one electoral vote. When electoral votes are calculated, they shouldn’t be by population, but by the amount of people who actually showed up to vote.
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Zoe Medvid
4/16/2018 06:42:44 am
The electoral college should be reformed. In order to reform this, the votes for each state should be split based on votes, to make it proportional. For example, if a state has 20 electoral votes and one candidate gets 499,999 votes, and the other gets 500,0001 votes, one candidate should get 11 and the other gets 9. If the electoral college is reformed to be reflective of the votes from states, it is more likely that a president who the public wanted will be elected.
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Lexi Chiesa
4/16/2018 06:43:25 am
The Electoral College should be reformed. We should have it proportional to the people in the state. This would give a more accurate vote that the people could agree with. Still having the electoral college would allow parties to change over the years, but reforming it would allow it to represent societies opinions more equally.
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Ben Peters
4/16/2018 06:44:39 am
I believe that the Electoral College should be reformed. A system that makes the College proportional would lead to a more accurate representation of the american populations want for a candidate. For example if you had one electoral vote for every 500K people, this would make it so that states with larger populations are more represented than smaller states, because larger stat voters carry less weight. This also would make it so that if a candidate wins by say 0.2% they don't get all of the votes, they only get some of the electoral votes, not all. Again this allows for a more accurate representation of the american population, and who they want to represent them. Also there should be a law set in place so that all the electorates from a state have to vote with what party won their state, and the candidate that the party chose, this would make it so that there is a clear cut winner.
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Lia Sideris
4/16/2018 06:44:46 am
The electoral college should only be reformed. Yes, there are many problems with the electoral college,but abolishing it completely would be too big of a change so suddenly. The problem with the electoral college is that a president who wins sometimes does not get the popular vote. Another problem is that states with larger populations have their voters vote count more than a state with a small population. The solution to that is just making everyone's vote equal so it's an equal opportunity to win.
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Lexi Moran
4/16/2018 06:44:56 am
I think the Electoral College should be reformed in order to give the losing voters in each state more representation. Electoral votes should be given proportionally in each state to abolish the winner take all system. This prevents swing states from leaning one way because of the result of one county. Also, this eliminates the problem of the popular vote candidate losing the election even though they clearly are more favored, which occurred in the 2016 election. Democrats argue that Clinton should have won because she received 48% of the vote while Trump only received 46%. If each state gave electoral votes according to the percentage of voters that voted for each candidate, voters would feel more represented and the turnout of the election would be more representative of what the people want.
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Caroline Mountain
4/16/2018 06:45:07 am
I believe that we should keep the Electoral College and reform it to make it better. Some ways that you can reform the Electoral College includes making it more proportional. When the popular votes are collected and the percentages are calculated, they can split the electoral votes among the candidates based on the amount of votes they received. So say in Ohio, if Clinton had received more of the popular vote then she should receive more electoral votes than Trump. That would be the same way if it were Trump. If a candidate received more popular votes then they should receive more electoral votes. It will make it more even and possibly make the voters more happy. It could possibly even unite our country more as well.
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Joey Ehland
4/16/2018 06:45:42 am
I believe that we should keep the electoral college. I also believe that it should be reformed to better represent the popular vote. States should split up their electoral votes in a ratio that is proportional to the amount of votes. This would ensure that the public is better represented in their electoral votes. One other thing this would do is it would make the campaign more competitive, because states would be less polarized.
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michael vilsack
4/16/2018 06:45:55 am
I personally do not think anything should be changed about the electoral college, but since you are making us choose a side I think it should be reformed. If anything should be changed they should make it proportional at least, that would make the most sense. If a state is completely split in half than maybe split up the votes so it is not a winner take all system. It is unfair that some states are completely split and one person gets all the votes.
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Ally Spalaris
4/16/2018 06:46:47 am
The Electoral College should be reformed because there needs to be more work on votes so they can be proportional to the states population. But, I think each electoral vote should be towards a specific amount of people to count as one electoral vote. If this is changed, the votes will probably end up resulting the candidate the public chose to win.
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Mia Thomas
4/16/2018 06:47:02 am
The Electoral College should not be abolished, but can be reformed. A state should make the voting proportional. For example, if there were 500,001 votes for Trump and 499,999 votes for Clinton. Then the electoral college votes should be given equally to each candidate based on the number of votes received. Therefore, it is not a winner take all situation in voting.
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soren mcnary
4/16/2018 06:47:10 am
keep the electoral college same if it's not broke don't fix it. I think it works just fine they select good people to choose the votes party leaders, state elected officials, etc. People who know politics choose the person that will be elected. The average voter isn't that smart we should leave it up to people that know politics.
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Sammy Dusch
4/16/2018 06:47:44 am
The Electoral College should be kept, but reformed. There should be a proportional vote. In Florida, the number of votes for Clinton was 4,504,975 and for Trump it was 4,617,886. It was such a close race in that state, clearly Trump should not have got all 29 electoral votes. Proportional voting reflects the people more, it shows what candidate is actually preferred in this country.
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Nick Tallon
4/16/2018 06:47:55 am
The electoral college should be reformed to be proportional to the population and the popular vote of that particular state. The winner take all system unfairly treats elections with very close votes to the popular candidate. Having candidates spend money and time in a state that has a very small percentage of choosing that candidate in the election is unfair.
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Kara Hunter
4/16/2018 06:48:08 am
The Electoral College should be reformed because then the votes can be proportional. Each state has electoral votes equal to the number of its House representatives plus two for its senators. The popular vote gives the people a say, but when the person they voted for doesn't win due to the winner-takes-all method they think its unfair. The Electoral college gives more power to the states and protects minority interests which is why it should not be completely abolished, but reformed to be proportional.
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Emily Spalaris
4/16/2018 06:49:43 am
I believe that the Electoral College needs to be reformed. The Electoral College is supposed to guarantee that one state cannot dominate the election. It was designed to balance the unfairness of the United States government. It gives the smaller states a small advantage in the selection of the president. Having an electoral college prevents swing states from having a higher advantage. Once the popular votes have been counted, they can split the electoral votes between the candidates that are running based on the popular vote.I believe that if one candidate got more popular votes they should receive more electoral votes.
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jack davis
4/16/2018 09:45:37 am
I think we should keep the electoral college. But, I think we should eliminate the three minimum electoral votes per state and make them directly proportional to population. Also, make the number of electoral votes an odd number so there is no way of a tie.
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Charles Frank
4/16/2018 09:46:02 am
I would abolish the Electoral College because of its major flaws. A presidential candidate can win the election by only winning 11 states. To me, that seems like an unfair way to win the presidential election. A large percent of the U.S. population wouldn't be represented, plus they didn't even vote for the winner. Abolishing the Electoral College would allow the American public to be more realistically represented by using the Population Vote instead.
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James Argent
4/16/2018 09:46:11 am
We should reform the electoral college. The system itself is alright the votes just need to be even out proportionally and give the states with higher population more votes and the ones with lower population less votes. So by doing this we would make each vote carry the same weight. In addition make all of the states follow the population vote for the EC. They need to protect the majority vote to make the EC fair.
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matt lewis
4/16/2018 09:46:30 am
I believe that the electoral college should be abolished because the popular vote should matter the most in a true democracy. I also believe that having states count more for less people is unfair.
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Kelsey Mullan
4/16/2018 09:46:41 am
I think the best reform for the electoral college is to implement proportional votes. If this occurs, the popular vote will have an increased influence so that the people's vote matters more than just winning 'states'. Therefore, the citizens' vote will matter more if population is correlated to the amount of electoral college votes per state.
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Haley Wilson
4/16/2018 09:46:56 am
I believe the electoral college should be abolished completely. The most recent election in 2016, Hillary Clinton technically won with the popular vote, but Trump won the electoral vote which I think is completely unfair. Around 2 million more people voted for Clinton so I do believe she should have won because more people did vote for her.
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Jaclyn Vulcano
4/16/2018 09:46:56 am
I believe the Electoral College should be reformed. One of the problems is that the “winner takes all” system. This system causes the population to not be equally represented. I would reform the electoral votes to be proportional to the votes of the population in each particular state, instead of the majority recieving all the votes in one state.
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Eric McCartney
4/16/2018 09:47:10 am
I believe the idea of an Electoral College is good, and should be kept. But it needs to be reformed. Having it based off the representatives of each state is unfair because it doesn’t take into account on the people. It should be reformed to make it so the votes are proportional in each state based off population.
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Grace Hoffman
4/16/2018 09:47:16 am
I believe that we should keep the Electoral College but it needs to be changed. I think we need to distribute the votes evenly based on the population alone no matter the size of the state. This will help the represent the views of the people when it is based on population of a state not based on size and get rid of the three votes per state. It creates too much unbalanced with population.
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Dax Ploskina
4/16/2018 09:47:29 am
I think that the Electoral College should be kept, but it should also be reformed. I like the idea that based on the number of votes in the popular vote that both the democratic and republican side should receive a proportion of electoral college votes. This would make the election process more fair and also give the popular vote a greater affect on the outcome of the presidency.
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Brandon Baker
4/16/2018 09:47:35 am
I believe that the electoral college should be reformed. It should be reformed so that it can become proportional. I do not think that it should be taken away but it needs to be reformed so that we can have a better electoral college. They should split the votes to make it proportional and make it balanced.
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Avery Lang
4/16/2018 09:47:49 am
In my opinion, the Electoral College should be kept, but reformed. To better the system, I the Electoral College should use representational popular vote. In this system, the electoral votes for each state would be given in proportion to the popular vote. This way it would reflect the citizens of the United States as a whole. Clinton won the popular vote over President Trump, but President Trump won the election. Reforming the electoral college would allow a more fair and precise election
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Kallie Knight
4/16/2018 09:47:49 am
I believe that the Electoral College should be removed. I do not think that the way the Electoral College works is a fair way to determine who should be president of the United States. A candidate could win the Popular vote, like Hillary Clinton did in the 2016 Election. She won by almost 3 million votes, yet she lost the Election because of the Electoral College. I think that who ever wins the popular vote should win the election. I think this because who ever wins the popular vote is who was voted for more throughout the entire nation, as to winning an electoral vote is just from one state. I think we need to look at the nation as a whole and not Individual states. Another option is to do proportional votes. I think that splitting up electoral votes would be a more fair way to do it instead of winner takes all. I think that could improve the way the President is elected and make it more fair.
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Carina Bergmann
4/16/2018 09:48:01 am
The electoral college system should not be abolished but reformed to a proportionally representative system. The current winner take all method ignores all losing voters. To fix this; for example in Pennsylvania if Trump got 500,000 votes and Clinton got 499,999 the electoral votes would be split 11/10 instead of Trump recieiving all 20.
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Griffin Gillespie
4/16/2018 09:48:24 am
The electoral college should be reformed so that votes are split proportional to what percent of citizens voted for each candidate in a certain state. For example, if Pennsylvania was split 51% to 49% then one candidate would get 11 votes and the other would get 9. This would help reduce candidates focusing mainly on swing states.
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Julianna Mankamyer
4/16/2018 09:49:04 am
I think that the Electoral College should be kep, but reformed. The system should be changed because if a candidate wins the popular vote then they should win the election. Electoral College Votes should be given more proportionally instead of the winner getting all the votes.
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Juliette Plummer
4/16/2018 09:49:17 am
I think the Electoral College should be kept but needs to be reformed. It has the right idea to make things equal for all states, but it is also unfair to the majority. It needs to better represent the popular vote. States should split the votes proportionally according to their population. This gives a more accurate representation of the population in the smaller states. And the peoples votes will matter just as much in heavily populated states like California as they do in states like Ohio.
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Isabella Mills
4/16/2018 09:50:26 am
I believe the Electoral College should be kept, however, it should be reformed. I believe the best way to reform it would be to make the electoral votes proportional. The electoral votes should be given to each candidate proportional to the amount of votes they receive. Therefore it would not be a winner take all system. For example if there were 500,001 votes for trump and 499,999 for clinton, trump would not get all the electoral votes. He would get more than Clinton, but Clinton would still get some, instead of getting none.
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Megan Casciola
4/16/2018 09:51:55 am
I think that the electoral college should be reformed. One specific change to be made would be changing to proportional representation. The electoral college votes should be given out equally. For example if Trump got 500,001 and Clinton got 499,999 votes then Trump would get all of the electoral votes. This needs to be changed so that it isn’t a “Winer take all” situation.
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Cam Start
4/16/2018 10:30:16 am
I would reform it so that the smaller states don’t get more Electoral Votes than they should, they should equalize the votes based on population. Bigger states such a California and Texas should get the most votes, and smaller states such as Vermont should get only a few.
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Sam evers
4/16/2018 10:31:56 am
I think the electoral college needs to be reformed so that everyone's vote is even. Also states should divide up their votes proportionally to each candidate according to popular vote.
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Chase
4/16/2018 10:32:28 am
I believe that we should keep the electoral college, but make some reforms to it. The votes need to be split more proportional to the percent of citizens that voted for that candidate. This would make the elections more fair and give the popular vote more of an influence.
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Anthony Melograne
4/16/2018 10:34:31 am
The Electoral College ensures that all parts of the country are involved in selecting the President of the United States. If the election depended solely on the popular vote, then candidates could limit campaigning to heavily populated areas or specific regions. To win the election, presidential candidates need electoral votes from multiple regions and therefore they build campaign platforms with a national focus, meaning that the winner will actually be serving the needs of the entire country. To summarize, the electoral college serves the purpose it was intended to, the only change that could be made is to make the weight of the votes equal between states to propose a truly fair election.
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Ellie Racunas
4/16/2018 10:38:17 am
I believe that the Electoral College should be reformed so that Electoral votes are proportional to the popular vote in that state. The Electoral College is necessary so that candidates do not sacrifice the good of the country for the favor of the people, however, it’s winner-takes-all system often misrepresents the view of the people. By allowing proportional voting, those who vote for the candidate who lost the popular vote in their state are still counted for in the grand scheme of things.
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Tess Piscatelli
4/16/2018 10:39:11 am
I believe that the electoral college should be kept but it should be reformed. We should have a proportional voting system within it so smaller states are not more important to candidates to win. They should split the votes proportional to the states population. In the last election, the popular vote in the nation was Clinton but Trump won the election anyways. This is not representative of a majority of the nations opinion. A proportional vote would be the best way to get election results that are actually refelective of American citizens opinion as a whole.
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Andrew Miller
4/16/2018 11:15:34 am
I believe the Electoral College system should be kept but reformed. Proportional voting should be required in every state to better represent how the population voted. This way if the state is won by a certain candidate by a slim margin, the losing candidate would still get some votes since they were so close to winning the state.
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Emma Ostrom
4/16/2018 11:17:06 am
I believe that the Electoral College should be reformed so that it’s various problems would be solved. I feel that it should be reformed since our founding fathers had a purpose in creating it since they wanted to allow states to be a part of the election process. The Electoral College needs to be reformed by making the electoral votes proportional so that the popular vote wonner can’t lose the election. Also, the number of electoral votes should be redistributed because it is not fair that votes in small states “weigh” more than votes in larger states. I also believe that there should be a law against “faithless electors” since some people don’t want to vote for the winner of that state which can cause problems throughout the voting system. By reforming the current Electoral College, today’s voting problems could easily be solved.
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Kyra Cunningham
4/16/2018 11:53:24 am
The electoral college needs to be reformed. Using the 2016 election as an example, Clinton won the popular vote with 48.20% of people voting for her. Trump only won 46.10% of the vote, but he won the electoral vote with 306 votes, compared to Clinton's 232 votes, and became president. This issue could be fixed if the electoral votes were split proportionally in each state between candidates instead of using the winner takes all system that the electoral college uses now.
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Makenna Marisa
4/16/2018 12:19:16 pm
I believe that the Electoral College should be reformed. The votes aren’t proportional to the states population which is not fair. I believe that an election should be decided by the popular vote since that is what the people want and isn’t that the point of a democracy? The people should be the ones deciding who will lead them since they are the ones who will be affected by that individual’s decisions. The electoral college may have been helpful at one point in history, but is no longer necessary.
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Cianni McGhee
4/16/2018 12:45:37 pm
The idea of the electoral college being represented by population I believe is a good strategy, although I think at times it can be unfair. The fact that voters in smaller states have a small advantage and that if the candidates are very close in the race for a particular state, the winner gets all electoral votes even if the winner didn't win by that much. To fix this problem, you could split the electoral votes based on the popular vote percentages. For example, if one candidate wins 30% of the popular vote, they would get 30% of that states electoral vote instead of them getting zero. That makes it fair to both parties and increases votes.
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Marygrace Schuck
4/16/2018 12:46:34 pm
The Electoral College, although flawed, is important to the democracy. Publius wrote in Federalist 68 that the Electoral College acts as a deterrent for candidates who would otherwise be “tempted to sacrifice doing what is good for the nation in order to win the favor of the people and remain in office.” Also, there have been relatively few cases in which the results of the popular vote we’re contrary to that of the electoral vote. However, since it is a possibility, the college should be reformed so that the number of electoral votes per state are divided proportionally according to the number of votes each candidate earns in each state. In some cases, electors refuse to vote for their party’s nominee and can spilt the vote for the party. This should be avoided with a law put into place that holds that all electors have to vote in accordance with the party vote within each state.
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4/16/2018 01:41:56 pm
I think that we should keep the electoral college but reform it. The problem now is that the popular vote Winner can lose because of the weight the electoral votes have. If the popular votes represent the people and we boast of how the US is a democracy and how the people choose our leaders, why not actually make that true. To fix the problem we have to make all the electoral votes represent the same amount of people. Because people’s votes weigh more in states with fewer people and that is unfair to the people who live in more populated states. That way the voting evens out and the people are better represented
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Giorgio Vincenti
4/16/2018 02:18:55 pm
In my opinion the electoral vote and the electoral college should be reformed. The electoral college is supposed to make the vote equal for everyone but it has been a long time that this doesn’t occur, letting less popular candidates winning the election without reaching even 50% of the vote. The electoral college should be removed and let the citizens voting for who they like more and agree more with.
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Jake Petrarca
4/16/2018 04:05:02 pm
I believe that the electoral vote and the electoral college should be abolished. I believe that way the citizens of America will have more representation in their government. The people would have a say in the outcome of the election. Take the 2016 election for example, Trump won the election, but more people actually voted for Hillary. Also if the electoral college was abolished we would not have to worry about which states get the most electoral votes and whatnot. The election would be decided based off of how many people actually show up to vote.
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Sara Martin
4/16/2018 04:38:32 pm
My opinion is that the electoral college should be abolished. The electoral vote is defined as a representative republic, while the popular vote is defined as a direct democracy. But the United States is defined as a representative democracy. By allowing the electoral vote to exist, is to allow a divided nation to exist. The electoral voting system allows too much power to swing states and allows for only a handful of states to decide the outcome of the presidential election. This type of voting ignores the will of the people, there are over 300 million people in the United States but just 538 people decide who will be the president. This is an unfair type of voting system that does not represent or acknowledge the type of president the people want in this country.
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Sarah Swift
4/16/2018 04:50:41 pm
Even though the Electoral College has caused unpopular outcomes in the past, it has not happened very often, a total of four times. Therefore, I think that it should not be done away with completely, but only modified so that states with larger populations have greater weight on the number of votes given to the candidate who won those states.
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McKenna Moser
4/16/2018 05:02:35 pm
I believe that the electoral college should be kept but should be reformed because some problems need to be solved. The Electoral College should be reformed by making the electoral votes proportional. That being said, the popular vote winner can’t lose the election. The number of electoral votes should be different because it is not fair that votes in small states have a larger role then votes in larger states. This way the losing candidates still has a chance.
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Alyssa Morrow
4/16/2018 05:04:10 pm
I think that the Electoral College should be kept, but reformed. I believe that the best way to fix the system would be to make the votes proportional to the population as well as the popular vote in that state. I think that the winner takes all system does not accurately represent all of the views of the people. By making the electoral votes proportional to the population and popular vote the states would split their votes between candidates. I believe this reform would better represent the views of those voting in an election.
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Logan Clark
4/16/2018 05:07:25 pm
I think the electoral college should be reformed. I think it should be reformed so Tha\T’ votes are distributed proportionally so we no longer have a winner take all system. Winner take all system is just outdated and stupid. We see time after time the popular vote for instance the 2016 election where Hilary won the popular vote 48% to Donald trumps 46% . Although she won the popular vote by a clear margin the electoral college system screwed her because trump won the bigger states. This would also help swing states so Tha\T’ we could see equal representation of what Tha\T’ state is truly feeling.
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Parker Lewis
4/16/2018 06:08:28 pm
I believe that the electoral college should be kept. If you represent yourself enough in a state and you get the majority of votes, you deserve to get all the electoral votes for that state. Granted there are elections that are 51% and 49%, it is still reasonable that they are more popular and should get those votes for that state. But, if the electoral college were to be reformed, I think we should make the votes proportional. If a president gets 30% of the popular vote in the state, then they should get 30% of the electoral votes. If the electoral votes are a decimal, round a down to the nearest whole number of votes. This system would still allow the more popular candidate would get more votes. This would also fix the 51% 49% issue. This would allow the two top most popular candidates to either get a vote difference or the same amount of votes.
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Ian Chaudhari
4/16/2018 06:33:23 pm
I think that the Electoral College should be reformed. There should be a proportional way of distributing the electoral votes for each state based on the amount of votes a candidate receives. In states like Florida, Republicans won by only 49% to 48% in 2016 and in 2012 the Democrats won by only 50% to 49% yet all the votes went to either just the Democrats or Republicans. In these cases the votes should be almost split in half giving each candidate a respective number of votes based on how well they did in that state.
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Nick Traficante
4/16/2018 06:37:43 pm
I believe that the Electoral College should be reformed. The “winner takes all” mentality does not take into consideration the other half of the population that voted another way in an election. By using a proportional system it allows for a more accurate and even representation of the election results.
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Lily Simmons
4/16/2018 07:33:51 pm
Right now if one party wins the state by the minimum percent needed the other party gets no votes from that state even though it was very close. If we reform the electoral college to be propotional votes, every vote would count in each state. The electoral college votes from each state will be divided out by the percentage of that state that the parties won. This would also prevent the problem that the winner of the popular vote can still loose the electural college and not become president even though they have more support.
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Andrew Ridge
4/16/2018 07:36:41 pm
Personally, I believe that the electoral college should be reformed to more closely fit the popular vote. With more and more elections becoming too close to call, the electoral college needs to go out of state boundaries to allow all citizens to have an equal say throughout the country (for example; Oregon has more of a say than a highly populated state like California) and divide up college votes to better mirror the actual population’s votes thus abolishing the winner takes all system and allowing a more fair system for all candidates.
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Anna Traumuller
4/16/2018 07:39:29 pm
I believe that the Electoral College should be reformed due to the lack of accurate representation. I believe that each person should have their fair vote in the Electoral College. This can be fixed by a more proportional voting system. In the 2016, more people voted for Hilary Clinton than Donald Trump, but in the Electoral College had more state votes for Donald Trump than Hilary Clinton. This is an inaccurate representation of electing the man or woman leading our country.
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Nathan Renz
4/16/2018 07:41:41 pm
I do not believe that any change is needed for the electoral college. Some might say that it is wrong because it does not represent the popular vote. The popular vote may show that more people want a certain candidate than the other, but the founding fathers did not design the foundation of our electoral system to rely upon the majority individual votes of the whole population of the united states. They designed the electoral college so that the majority of the states decided the election. In the latest election, President Donald Trump won the popular vote in 3,084 counties while Hillary Clinton won only 57. If the election was based on the popular vote of the whole voting population then only a few highly populated states such as New York, California, and Texas would decide the winner election every single time. And if only a few states are deciding the election then all the votes within the other states should be considered worthless.
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Carlee Breier
4/16/2018 07:49:26 pm
I believe that the Electoral College should be kept but reformed. I think the Electoral College votes should be divided based on population alone, and that proportional representation should be used. By using this method, not all the electoral votes would go to the majority party, but instead the votes would be split based on the citizens' votes. This ensures that no states or individuals citizens votes "matter" more than others.
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Jackson Basar
4/16/2018 07:52:31 pm
The Electoral College should be reformed. The votes need to be more proportional because it would be more fair to the citizens that votes counts less then others. Also, the winner takes all system is broken because if the candidate wins by 51% in that state then the other 49% will not be represented. Also, this would make it more fair for each candidate and have the popular vote more of a influence.
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Luke Sommer
4/18/2018 08:17:28 am
I feel we need to keep the electoral college, since it is a part of the US Constitution. Not saying it is perfect, but we cant just abolish it. The EC needs some slight reform. Giving each state the amount of votes that represents there population properly is key. Some states have too many votes and some having a population that is underrepresented. The reform would please the nation and make voters appreciate the EC more.
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John Pituch
4/18/2018 12:04:52 pm
I believe that the Electoral College should be kept but reformed to better reflect the American people. For the popular vote, Hillary received 48.1% of the vote whereas Trump only received 46.6% of the vote. The Electoral College should be reformed in order to distribute the electoral votes based on the proportion of the vote. If a state has 3 electoral votes and Trump wins 66% and Clinton 34%, Trump should get 2 votes and Clinton 1.
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