...election, which is the Electoral College. The voters elect the electoral college which then elects the President. However there is much room for mistakes through this process. Therefore, due to the corruption and inequality, the Electoral College is not a fair and equitable way to elect the President of the United States. Over the years, there have been times when the Electoral College elects a candidate that did not win the popular vote. For example in the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote with 152,933 votes but John Quincy Adams became president...
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...Did you know the electoral college is the way we as a country select our president and has 435 votes in total? The electoral college was established in 1787 to consider many methods to elect the president and was originally called the Constitutional Convention. The electoral college should be changed even though many people think it’s a successful method of how we pick our president. The main reasons are that it causes confusion in the ballots and it is corrupt, there’s an unfair amount or representation in the number of votes per state, and if there is no majority then the House of Representatives decides the leader of our country instead of the people. The primary reason the electoral college is due to the confusion of the ballots in some polling stations or corruption within a state’s voting. In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the election because he won Florida in a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court case decision (Document 6). This decision could show the corruption due to the party affiliation of the judges or who they voted for in the election. The reason that this case went to...
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