234) the Automatic Plan will uphold the current Electoral College system’s harmony between federal and state power and between small and large cities. The plan will also help eliminate the possibility of ‘faithless electors’ as well as preserve the present two-part system under a state-by-state, winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes. The proponents of this plan assert that this is the strength of the existing arrangement since it tends to reward parties that include a broad range of viewpoints and embrace vast areas of the nation. They also argue that the ‘minority Presidents can still be elected under the automatic system, and pit provides no electoral recognition of the opinion or views of voters who elect the losing …show more content…
The proponents also argued that plan reduces the probability of ‘minority’ presidents- those who triumph with a higher number of the majority but get few popular votes than their principal opponent. The plan proponents propose that it would favorably account for preference, by setting aside electoral votes within the states to bend back the actual support attained by different candidates specifically in the strict, as opposed to the rounded version of the plan. The argument that Electoral College is undemocratic is erroneous. Voters elect electors in free and fair elections. The Electoral College system specifies a federal election of the president where voters are tallied to vote in all the state. The founders wanted to choose the choosing of the President to be through an action of citizens in a federal republic where they participate both as citizens of the United States and as members of their state communities (Ganghof et al.