When will the majority vote count in a presidential election?

Question

The electoricial college seems to do it's own voting even against the majority vote. Isn't it time to stop this curruption? Also would more people be willing to vote if they knew their vote counted?

Answer 1

in the 2000 elections Bush got a total of 50,456,002 individual votes, and Gore got a total of 50,999,897 individual votes.
however the electoral college votes favored bush with 271 votes and gore got 266 if it weren't for the electoral college Bush would not have been president in the first place. So why should people even vote when their votes obviously don't count for nothing. How can someone say that their vote counts when the majority loses

Answer 2

The majority vote in the state goes to the candidate who won the majority. We are a nation of 50 states. Why should the nation have to deal with what California, Texas, and NY want just because they have over 25% of the population? Please do your homework.

Answer 3

Maybe when people stop looking at policies that are outdated and useless. Just maybe we could be modern and stop looking at policies like the amendments to the consititution that were created 300 years ago. A little change never hurt.

Answer 4

It worked in 2004. The electoral college is hardly corruption. This is how we've been electing presidents for a very long time. It's in the Constitution.

Answer 5

Which majority.. the one they use or the one we really voted in?

Answer 6

we discussed this at length below.

America is a republic, not a democracy.

I, for one, won't vote to change that. And I won't accept that you or anyone has the right to force such a change in the government that represents me or counts me as a citizen.


clear?

Answer 7

Never.

That's the bottom line.