Resolved: Direct popular vote should replace electoral vote in presidential elections.

1) The Pro continues to restate how territories could decide elections because of 2 million voters, but as I have already argued not all 2 million of those voters would all vote for one side.... roughly 30% will vote Democrat, 30% Republican, and then 40% would be undecided and they would ultimately be the ones who decided the election. That being said I emphasize my point about how US territories would have a smaller impact in elections then the Pro implies because 1) only a fraction of the population votes, and 2) voters in these territories would not be unanimously for one candidate, there would be division between who they vote for so the potential impact of votes that come from these territories would still be small 2) As for the Florida argument, the problem that arose was that the number of actual votes were not being accurately counted, which in a direct popular vote would happen. The electoral college only assigned the Florida votes to Bush AFTER the Supreme Court halted the recount, tallied up the votes, and declared Bush the winner of Florida, the electoral system did not clash with the number of votes that were cast in Florida at all.... 3) In a direct popular vote the minority in California would have their say while the majority still had theirs, but the point of the electoral college is to give the minority population a greater say on the national level, not within states. Within states there exists potentially millions of votes that a candidate would go for but then like I said before the smaller states would have a smaller say because their populations are far smaller tan the larger states. In the electoral college though a winner take all system exists to give smaller STATES greater political say in elections, not smaller groups of voters. In a direct popular vote system minority voting groups in large states would still outweigh the minority votes of smaller states, so that gives larger states more voting power because pound for pound they have a greater say population wise 4) The New York Florida voters to electoral votes example is showing how the electoral system is designed so that smaller states could have an increased say in political elections over larger states. This prevents candidates from only going to the largest states to get votes because as the example shows, candidates would have to pay attention to smaller states in order to win the presidency but in a direct popular vote system they would only have to go to the largest states, regardless of how large the minority groups of each states are. "Currently in the Electoral College a person's vote in smaller states is worth more than the same person's vote in a bigger state. This is unequal representation of people." When the Founding fathers created the electoral college, they did so because they wanted to fight the concept of tyranny by majority. They did not want to create a system where the majority could oppress the minority, so the electoral college was installed so that smaller states such as New Hampshire or Vermont could have a larger political say in elections than New York or Virginia then they would have in a direct popular vote system. In a direct popular vote, it would be the largest states that would have all the voting power based on their sheer size. The idea that the minority votes would count and bridge this gap is false because for minority votes to really make a difference in an election, it would have to a large minority, and the only place you cold find a large minority vote is in a LARGE STATE The electoral college does not take into account the minority vote within a state, but a direct popular vote would only make the minority vote in the largest states relevant. That would cause candidates to try to gain votes in the largest states rather than smaller states, but in the electoral college system candidates could resort to the smaller states to try to win the election..... giving the smaller states a larger political say then a direct popular vote system would