Has it ever occurred to you that it is time for a change in the way Americans elect the future
president. With all the flaws the electoral college vote brings, their needs to be a change. The
popular vote should be the standard way to elect the president.
One has to feel that the past presidential election was a major let down to our country. In
the since that other countries throughout the world must be looking at the American society and
thinking "what a discrase". This is all because of the system we vote under. Which is the electoral
college vote. The electoral college system is calculated in such a matter were each state has a
certain number of electoral votes. They determine electoral votes on how many people live in any
given state. Once they have that they determine the next president by the first candidate who
reaches 275 electoral votes. If one thinks about it hard enough this way could be affected by many
inaccurate ballets. A perfect example would be the Florida recount. This was caused by the
citizens in Palm Beach County in Florida. They made inaccurate votes and once that occurred the
ballets were thrown out. This caused a mandatory recount for that county. If that is not a major
screw up by the American society then I dont know what is. All that incident did was make are
country look very unintelligent by not even being able to elect a president.
The popular vote is the more logical way of electing the future president. This way you
have all the American citizens vote including the absentee ballots for those people who are not
currently in the country at the time of the election. Once everyone has voted add up all the ballots
and the candidate with the most votes will be the next president. This way is simpler than having
to calculate up all the electoral votes in any given state. As we witnessed last November the
presidential election was a joke. One must not want t...