Electoral Pre-School

Design a system to elect the president other than the electoral college.  Be detailed in the description and explanation of your system.  After you give a description of your new system, please provide 3 concrete reasons as to why your system is better than the Electoral College.

 “The probability of being run over by a car going to or returning from the polls is similar to the probability of casting the decisive vote. If being run over is worse than having one's preferred candidate lose, then this potential cost of voting alone would exceed the potential gain (Bohanon, Van Cott).”

Personally I believe that majority vote is the most important part of of winning our elections. The whole electoral college structure was because when everyone wanted to vote they did in town and one representative rode on horseback to send the message to the capital. Well, now we can send something to Washington D.C. from anywhere on earth in less than a second. So clearly we are only keeping this system for the nostalgic connection it has to our history and because those who have used and understand it wish to keep it as it is. We respect the founding fathers so much that we take their words on every governmental action and court decision, so when you take into context that this was written over 200 years ago it would clearly need an 'update'. We don't have to change the goal, just change the process. And now with computers everyone can send their votes and even the results could be tallied live! If we could allow this with the idea that the winner of the majority rules, I'm 100% more people would turn out to vote because they would have more power in the election.

Majority vote is exactly what it says it is. Everyone gets one vote, and your own personal vote actually counts towards electing the new president. This is the essence of a democracy. The term democracy mean "rule of the people" in Greek. "Democracy is an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state, requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to express their opinion." And in a country that puts 300 million people under 538 electors how can we consider this a democracy? Of course we cant expect everyone in the U.S. to all vote on EVERY bill or decision made by the local or federal governments but we can take a hand in it more than ever and this scares a lot of men who have dedicated their lives to maintaining it for themselves. We could, however most improbable in the near future, actually get rid of representatives altogether and everyone can just represent themselves.

Additionally, it is a failing system. A system where a person can actually win the presidential vote with less than 40% of the popular vote is disgusting and is clearly twisting the system. And although I strongly believe is the change to popular vote we must begin with baby steps so that those that are comfortable with the system don't go into "shock" from all the change, since I'm sure that's what would happen since it would happen to my grandpa and most men in government are about my grandpa's age. So yes I believe that we can change to a majority vote for the president but we must take small steps, like making the districts smaller for electoral colleges and allowing them to split the mass of the votes in the state.

In summation, these are silly practices keep alive by the men who wish to not think for themselves like our founding fathers once did. They didn't anticipate what everything would be like now and surely could have never known the struggles that are being made today to keep freedom with expanding opportunities against it. As Anatole France once said "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." And that is where I believe we must go.

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