Analysis of the Electoral College and Its Impact on US Elections

This essay examines the Electoral College system, focusing on its structure as outlined in the Constitution and the 12th chapter, and its impact on US presidential elections. It details the process, including how states allocate electoral votes and the role of electors. The essay highlights the 2000 presidential election, where George W. Bush won despite Al Gore receiving more popular votes, illustrating the potential for the Electoral College to produce outcomes that differ from the popular vote. The author expresses their opposition to the Electoral College, arguing that it can undermine the principle of the people's choice and grant excessive power to political figures, potentially canceling democratic decisions. The paper references the works of Edwards (2019) and Zingher (2016) to support the analysis.

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The law of the Electoral college process in the U.S. is provided in Part II, Section 1,
parts 2 and 4 of the Constitution, and the 12th chapter. In compliance with Clause 2, every
state casts as many ballots as the total number of senators and legislative members. In
contrast, Washington, D.C. casts the same amount (three) of votes as the least populated
nation. Each state legislature, not specifically the federal government, shall decide how to
nominate in Clause 2. Few democratic administrations have historically explicitly chosen
their delegates, but many of them have used mass polling to determine votes over time. After
being selected, electors frequently cast their electoral ballots for the party who received the
majority of their government (Edwards, 2019). Furthermore, 18 states have no laws expressly
discussing this comportment. The outcomes in an election usually are focused on state-by-
state public polls, which is why faithless and unspoken ballots in the present period will not
impact the outcome.
My chosen presidential election from history is The 2000 United States presidential
election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, which was won by George W. Bush.
It was mostly uncertain who prevailed, and also Florida state's votes were undecided.
The returns revealed that Bush won Florida so slightly that policy legislation demanded a
recount. Eventually, Bush earned 271 electoral votes, one more than a plurality, even as Gore
collected 543,895 more votes of the people (a 0.51% margin) (Zingher, 2016) Bush has
influenced 11 Democratic states since 1996: Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Tennessee, and West
Virginia. Several nations in the South and Midwest have now become protected areas for the
Republican Party's presidential race.
Furthermore, Maine and Nebraska both required each nominee to split their electoral
votes. For each nation, the winner of the state election earns two electoral votes, and the
winner of each legislative district receives one electoral vote.

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So as I can see in the 2000 presidential election, President Gorge Bush won only by
the electoral college system. Otherwise, Gore had .51% more votes than Bush. So the
people's choice was not Gorge Bush. This is the main reason for me to be against electoral
college system. The current procedure of the electoral college system was not people's
choice, although the people chose the electoral congressmen. The electoral process gives
specific power in the hands of political persons, and sometimes with the help of the process,
the decision of democracy gets cancelled.

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References
Edwards III, G. C. (2019). Why the Electoral College is bad for America. Yale University
Press.
Zingher, J. (2016). The relationship between bias and swing ratio in the Electoral College and
the outcome of presidential elections. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and
Parties, 26(2), 232-252.