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

Resolved: Direct popular vote should replace electoral vote in presidential elections. Framework : This Round should be based off of the equal distribution of benefits for all U.S. Citizens The word Constitution means :The basic law of a state which sets out how that state will be organized, the powers and authorities of government between different political units, and by stating and the basic principles of the society. http://www.duhaime.org... Thus when the Constitution states "We the people of the united states... do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." this means that the government's sovereignty comes directly from the people. Why then do states as a whole elect the president rather than the individual ? Contention 1: Territories of the United States Are Not Being Represented. The combined population of US territories is greater than 4 million, 40 out of the 56 US elections have had a popular vote with margins of less than 4 million votes (www.electionatlas.org) This means that a substantially amount of elections could have been swayed to better represent the people. Further more because electoral votes are determined by the number of Congressional Representatives plus the number of Senators, territories have no representation, the president does not currently represent them. Contention 2: The electoral college has outlived its usefulness The original purpose of the electoral college was to create a way to appease all the policymakers by compromise, and to retaliate against the inaccuracy of the current time's poor ballet counting ability. The compromise was between elected by the people and by the congress, this gave us the electoral college. Government powers have shifted since giving the legislative branch power, appeasing the congress side vote, but dismayed at the increase in power was the people vote side. Thus in order for the ideology that founded the electoral college to continue, the popular vote should be instituted. The ability to count votes has been resolved thanks to computers. It is not the inability to fill out ballets (such as Florida) that the electoral college solves, in fact it is the electoral college that creates the problem, because it is a winner take all system each state is won not the country Contention 3: Direct popular vote would strengthen the idea of democracy Sub-point A: Direct popular vote eliminates regional advantage By giving every citizen equal say in the presidential campaign it eliminate the advantage of regional candidates. Where as regional candidates generally win the electoral votes from their states, popular vote would dissolve the connections between the candidate's and there regions. Sub-point B : Direct popular vote encourages citizen participation Direct popular vote leaves no vote unimportant, all votes are counted in the determining election. Therefore citizens of the minority party living in a unbalanced state would have just as much leverage in the election as their major party counterpart. Stat on voting percentage. Gallup poll about people that would vote if there was no electoral college. Contention 4: Electoral voting is based on census count rather that voter turnout. Electoral votes are based on citizens in the state not votes. In 2008 Florida had the same amount of electoral votes as New York (29), however a million more votes were cast in New York (uselectionatlas.org). Does it seem fair that Active voters have more or less power depending only on the population of their state?