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Electoral College it was meant to resolve inter-state disputes about power based on
geographical and regional differences. As I understand it, it was meant to keep out the
uneducated person from being able to run this country. They did not want any of the
"uneducated masses" to have any direct political power. By direct political power I
mean the power to elect a president by popular vote. Only three times has the
presidential candidate had the popular vote but failed to get the majority of the electoral
votes (1824,1876, 1888). The president is not necessarily elected by popular vote,
although that helps; the Electoral College elects the President. By having an Electoral
College that means it deprives the American public from having a full voice in choosing
their President. Is this the democratic way?
Why should we keep the Electoral Collage? Is it fair to the American people who
want to run on a third party ticket? The Electoral College makes no allowances for third
party candidates of which there are approximately twenty-three parties. What good is
the Electoral College doing the American public? By using the Electoral College it
means only a hand full of Oklahomans get to help elect the President of the United
States. I do not think it is fair or right for the members of the Electoral College to think
that they have voted the way I might have. Are the psychic? I think not. Many states
have a winner take all rule with regards to the Electoral votes and individual votes
become meaningless. If my vote becomes meaningless, why should I vote? What
good does it do the everyday "John Doe" to vote?
Every Presidential election year both major parties hold conventions to select
delegates. What about the third-party candidates? They do not have Electors because
they are not one of the major political parties. Where does that leave the...