Proposal To Abolish The Electoral College

The presidential election was established in the United States Constitution each four years. There are several predefined requisite for candidates to be eligible for presidency, markedly, the candidate have to be above 35 years old, born in the United States or have took up residence in United States for 14 years. If candidates have fulfilled these criteria, they will continue with the general procedures for presidential election. The first step of a presidential campaign is the nomination campaign in attempt of gaining corroboration from the delegate. Soon, the locals participate in nominating presidential candidates through caucuses and primary in the states. Candidates who have successfully nominated in the election are declared at national party conventions. After the convention, the second stage of the presidential campaign begins: the election campaign. In this stage, presidential candidates from distinct parties vie against each other. Till the first Tuesday of November, citizens balloting to select groups of electors in the Electoral College. Important to realize, the Electoral College exists for the purpose of compromise between the popular vote from general public and the ideal election for president from the Congress. An elector not necessarily a senator, representative or other person works in United States office. Finally, on January 20th, the elected president moves into the White House with ceremonial known as inauguration and takes the president vow. According to William Lamb (1817), “… the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility” (para. 17). In the hope that a responsible and ideal individual is chosen and able to portray himself as the spokesperson of the general population, such meticulous procedure of United States presidential election is executed to appoint the best possible nominee to become the President of the United States. Recently, Donald Trump – a character from Republican Party who often proclaimed in the virtual world as a non-caliber person and inexperienced in politics, eventually became the 45th President of the United States. Trump’s victory as President of the United States turned out to be surprising for large number of voters. For this reason, I strongly disagree that the implementation of structured presidential election system to become United States president has successfully signify the best president is elected. First of all, I would like to provide comments on the electoral system that has been troubling the locals. The procedures for the locals to cast their ballots tend to become harder ever since the Congress has passed the Voters Rights Act in 1964. Instead, now, they had to show an official document from the government or property’s registration to qualify them as voters. Under those circumstances, they have to struggle to make time obtaining residents approval in government offices and make it to voting booths before they close as they can only do so during working hours. On the other hand, the number of balloting places and hours of voting are shorten, which results in longer queue with more people to discontinue the voting process. In my opinion, the problems that arise through these meticulous procedure is that the locals still have to go through the manual and time-consuming voting system, even though we have live in a digital world where information can be sent and received instantly. Supposedly, the locals could ask for an early poll …show more content…
I have chosen two features of the current system that deserve more discussion and possible reform. The locals covet for easier balloter registration and easier balloting. Supposedly, institutions or organizations who involved in the presidential election figure out solutions to facilitate the voting process, instead of just focusing on the presidential election procedure. Another key point, the proposals to abolish the Electoral College, though frequently put forward, have failed largely because the alternatives to it appear more problematic than is the College itself. The fact that the Electoral College was originally designed to solve one set of problems but today serves to solve an entirely different set of problems is a tribute to the genius of the Founding Fathers. These two elements which I discuss work, but the question is, whether they deliver the best candidates that we can hope for. Hopefully, more research will be carried out on these issues and give us the