The Electoral College Should Be Abolished and Replaced in the American Voting System

Indeed, according to Article II section I the constitution, the framers of the constitution upheld that the president would be selected based on the electoral process. First and for most, the electoral college in my perspective, is a suitable solution in regards to electing the commander in chief because it doesn't cause multiple faction but rather sustain a well-functioning two-party system. In addition, the electoral college is the best alternative towards selecting the upcoming president of the United States because it prevents constitutents from electing an unsuitable candidate. Lastly, the electoral college should remain as the ongoing system because it's capable of equally representing both large and small states. In particular, as opposed to a country that is governed based on a parlimentary system, the winner take all system is capable of preventing a coalition from occurring because this system only elects the candidates who attain the majority of the votes. However, In a parlimentary system functioning government, the candidates who attain five percent of the votes are proportionaly granted the same amount of delegates. With that being said, if the United States creates the presidental process to be selected based on a direct democracy radical candidates will be capable of seeking power within a year. However, the electoral college designs a two party system in which it prevents third party candidates from gaining power. In addition, the electoral process is an effective process in terms of selecting a president because like big states small states are also equally represented in the electoral proccess. According to Article 1 section 2 the house of Representatives is capable of selecting who becomes the president of the United states if any of the candidates do not attain 270 votes in the electoral college the house of reps selects who becomes the president by using state delegation. Therefore, this allows both large and small states to only attain one vote when selecting the president. Therefore, the small state will be as effective as the big state in the electoral process. In the same essence, the electoral college should remain as the official process for electing the president due to it causing candidates to focus more on independents than on straight ticket voters. For Instance, throughout the past two decades it has been evident that California has the tendency of voting for a presidental candidate with a liberal ideology. Therefore, in the electoral process it causes candidates to focus mostly on states that are considered swing meaning that they could vote for any type of candidates. By doing so, this is a crucial element in representation because the constituents living in swing states compose all aspects of America's demographics. WIth that being said it encourages candidates to also use retail politics, meaning that candidates are actually capable of attending in local events in order to target the independent voters. The founding fathers established a winner-take all system in the electoral process in order to prevent radical candidates from forming a coalition because those third party candidates are incapable of negotiating with moderate candidates since they do not attain electoral votes proportionally to their polls.