The Electoral College should be abolished

I believe that the Electoral Collge should be replaced with the National Vote on theses grounds Theres always a possibility of electing a president who didn't get a majority voteThere's the possible role of the Electoral College in depressing voter turnoutThere's a possibility of failure to accurately reflect the national popular will.http://uselectionatlas.org......... The Electoral College also gives more weight to votes cast in small states etc.http://www.scholastic.com......1) Theres always a possibility of electing a president who didn't get a majority voteThe electoral college is responsible for deciding in the end, who wins the election based on their own judgementSo theres always a possibility that a candidate who got the minority votes, could win.That's what happened to Al Gore. Al Gore got the majority vote but lost in the electoral college vote.http://www.huffingtonpost.com......This is extremely significant as it shows that millions of candidates votes are wasted because the electoral college ultimately decides who becomes the president and vice-president.Small states are also disproportionately held in too much importance under the electoral college system. Since there are less people in smaller states, if their vote drastically affects the vote in the way that the electoral college is run, than more people will be affected than if the larger states got their way.2) There's the possible role of the Electoral College in depressing voter turnout"Their argument is that, since each State is entitled to the same number of electoral votes regardless of its voter turnout, there is no incentive in the States to encourage voter participation." http://uselectionatlas.org...Also since there's also the possibility that a candidate with minority votes could win, there would be less of an incentive to vote since their votes cast aren't as important3) There's a possibility of failure to accurately reflect the national popular will. "First, the distribution of Electoral votes in the College tends to over-represent people in rural States. This is because the number of Electors for each State is determined by the number of members it has in the House (which more or less reflects the State's population size) plus the number of members it has in the Senate (which is always two regardless of the State's population). The result is that in 1988, for example, the combined voting age population (3,119,000) of the seven least populous jurisdiction of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming carried the same voting strength in the Electoral College (21 Electoral votes) as the 9,614,000 persons of voting age in the State of Florida. Each Floridian's potential vote, then, carried about one third the weight of a potential vote in the other States listed. A second way in which the Electoral College fails to accurately reflect the national popular will stems primarily from the winner-take-all mechanism whereby the presidential candidate who wins the most popular votes in the State wins all the Electoral votes of that State. One effect of this mechanism is to make it extremely difficult for third party or independent candidates ever to make much of a showing in the Electoral College. If, for example, a third party or independent candidate were to win the support of even as many as 25% of the voters nationwide, he might still end up with no Electoral College votes at all unless he won a plurality of votes in at least one State. And even if he managed to win a few States, his support elsewhere would not be reflected. By thus failing to accurately reflect the national popular will, the argument goes, the Electoral College reinforces a two party system, discourages third party or independent candidates, and thereby tends to restrict choices available to the electorate." http://uselectionatlas.org... The electoral college was created in order to protect the country against "the bad votes because of the ignorance of the people."The writers of the Constitution were elitists.They didn't want the uneducated people deciding who would become president. it may have been for the best at the time but now people are more educated than back then. If the electoral college is abolished, than people will become more encouraged to become educated about politics since they feel that their vote will make more of a difference. Abolishing the electoral college would also bring in more room for third party candidates and suchThe fact that there is still an electoral college implies that the Government does not trust the people enough to make a wise decision in their vote. It still implies the elitist doctrine that was held in the sentiment of the writers of the Constitution.This is not a true democracy!If the Government continues making decisions for the people instead of the people making decisions for themselves, than the Government will always have immense power over us.The people deserve the take back their country and ultimately decide for themselves who will run the country and no electoral college is going to make that decision for them!