Has the electoral college failed?

Question

I always thought the electoral college was created to keep the uneducated masses from electing incompotent and radical leaders.
Our founding fathers always warned us of an excess of democracy, has the electoral college fail to prevent this excess?

Answer 1

Yes, because of the way it is implemented by the states.

BeachBum is (as usual) correct in her analysis and history. The problem with the system, however, is not in its origins but in how it works in practice.

The constitutional rules say that the number of electors is the same as the number of people in Congress. However, the constitution sets a recommended value of one per 30K, while in actuality, the ratio is one per 690K. Meaning that 690K people need to vote one way for a single electoral college vote to be representative.

The other problem is the way states determine who gets the vote. Almost all states use an all-or-nothing model, so that whoever gets the highest popular result in their state gets all the electoral votes for that state. Meaning that in most elections roughly 49% of the votes are utterly meaningless because they are never even counted at the electoral level.

Finally, because the implementation of the electoral college massively favors the two major political parties, it effectively denies any voting representation for those who do not support either of those parties. In that manner, it has failed because it reinforces the effective control of the majority, and makes it much harder to elect a third-party candidate.

Answer 2

i don't think of the electoral college failed us. the in worry-free words ingredient that failed on November 6 were the tries of a few officials to dodge certain demographics from vote casting. in undeniable reality that he merely doesn't like what the authentic results of the election change into. There are continually going to be those who say such issues even as something doesn't pass their way. This us of a is a democracy with vast cultural range, it will be no longer plausible to delight anybody

Answer 3

Yes it has failed.

The electoral college was created for other reasons also including the fact that transportation and media was hard to come by. It was suppose to give districts short distances to travel to vote. Their representative's job was to stay educated on the issues for them and to represent them.

Over the past few years what we have seen is the republican party manipulating districts based on race in order to get more republicans elected. I am sure that is not what the forefathers had in mind.

With the Internet, television and travel more accessible today, the electoral college is obsolete.

Answer 4

What the heck is 'electoral college? You Yankees have all these funny names that no one knows anything about.

Answer 5

DOESN'T REALLY MATTER BECAUSE THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S VOTE DOESN'T SEEM TO COUNT ANYWAYS. BUT NO TO YOUR QUESTION!

Answer 6

nope