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The Electoral College System - Online Term Paper

The Electoral College System

Many Americans take pride in the fact that the United States has a
democratic form of rule. They believe they directly elect their officials
to represent them. This is no true in all cases. The Presidency is not a
directly elected office. Many Americans do not realize they do not vote for
the President. The Electoral College actually elects the President. The
Electoral College is a flawed institution that needs to be reformed.
The Framers of the Constitution devised the electoral system based
on the fact they had little faith voters would be making the best decision.
It was a check on the power of the voters. The Framers saw themselves
above most citizens. The average citizen was ...

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Basically the Electoral College system works like this today. Every
ten years the census figures adjusts how many representatives each state
has. This number plus two, representing the two senators, equals how many
electors each state has. Also Washington DC has 3 electors. Then each state
has the right to decide how to select these electors. Forty-eight states
use the general ticket system, two, Maine and Nebraska, use the district
system. The general ticket system is supposed to operate as follows. There
is a direct vote election held in each state and the winner of the vote is
suppose to get all of that states electoral votes. In 24 states the
electors are required to vote as pledged. In Maine and Nebraska there is an
election held in each congressional district. The winner of every district
gets one electoral vote, and the candidate with the most electoral votes
gets the remaining two electoral votes. Then all of the votes are counted,
and if a candidate gets more than ...

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Added: 3/22/2007 06:36:36 AM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
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