is it fair? a group of a few ppl decide who really wins the election. is this fair to us at all?
2006-10-03 11:17:27 · 12 answers · asked by uluvme8807 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
it's lame.
our founding fathers created the electoral college so people who didn't know what they were doing wouldn't like cast a bad vote. you know? well i don't know how to explain it any better.
i know that the electoral college is outdated now, and a lot of people really don't even know what it is... or how it works.
i don't think our founding fathers would want this today.
2006-10-03 11:19:08 · answer #1 · answered by spoof ♫♪ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The electoral college is designed to balance the power of states in the United states. It makes it so that a state with a very high population can not usurp the rights of states with less population. therefore fairness is irrelevant. Nearly 99% of the time the electoral college votes all for the candidate you got the popular vote in that state. That means that the people aren't necessarily getting an individual vote but that the candidate who won in that state will recieve the full voting potential of that state. Most people don't understand that the US is not a democracy it's a republic. In a democracy 51% of the people can steal from 49%. In a republic the people are bound by laws that stop them from stealing from others.
2006-10-03 18:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Paul 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's pretty lame for a few reasons:
1. Citizens of smaller states get a larger proportion of say with their vote, due to the fact that House of Representatives members are decided by each state's population, but every state gets two senators regardless of their population. A state's electoral vote is equal to it's number of members in Congress.
2. Some states are reliably Republican or Democrat, meaning that only a few states are "in play" in any given election and thus, elections center around a select handful of "battleground states" with other states being largely ignored.
2006-10-03 18:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by twiceborne 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As the 2000 election showed, the EC is completely unfair. It is an antiquated obsolete institution. It is unnecessary and actually encourages candidates to IGNORE smaller states and most of the larger states as well. Democrats rarely campaign in Texas or Republicans in NY for instance as those states along with California and many others are pretty much assured to go one way or the other. Instead the candidates campaign in about a dozen or so, "swing" states and ignore the rest of the country.
2006-10-04 00:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The number of electoral votes is decided by the population of the state. Some states have more electoral votes than other states. The electoral college representative ordinarily votes the way the population of their state votes. So the popular vote (how the population votes) mirrors the Electoral vote.
2006-10-03 18:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by alwaysbombed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's fair got to do with it? It was decided by the founding fathers, and unless you get 3/4 of the states and Congress to pass an amendment it is not going to change
2006-10-03 18:26:05 · answer #6 · answered by redhotboxsoxfan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that the electorial vote is right. The concept is great but as we have seen a few times in history it is not perfect. How are they goin to get people out to vote when their vote really doesn't matter. I think personally that the whole thing needs to be done away with and the popular voted used. Why do two times the work? We already count the votes so why not use them.
2006-10-03 18:29:13 · answer #7 · answered by Ronnie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Get rid of the college and have a direct popular vote for President.
2006-10-03 18:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no it should go by what the people wants electoral college is a bad idea.
2006-10-03 18:33:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do believe that it is an antiquated system that needs to be abolished. Every vote should count.
2006-10-03 18:27:12 · answer #10 · answered by Mykl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋