Effects of Electoral College on Presidential elections of a country The nation’s presidential elections are significantly affected by the Electoral College that is in power in a country. In the US, for instance, the Electoral College has a big role in voting and the system of voting, and therefore they impact presidential elections in one way or another. It has been argued that it is not possible to have a completely fair election in a country due to undue influence and failure of the voting systems. The results mostly announced by the Electoral College may a great extent be misleading. For instance, if three people are running for the presidency, the winner is dictated by the popular vote policy, which is used by the Electoral College. One person gets 40% of the votes, and the other two 30% each, the person with 40% will have the popular vote, but on aggregate, he is not the winner. It may not be true because the so declared winner was rejected by 60% of the voters. 40% is too low compared to 60% of the voters who did not vote for him. The sixty percent did not approve of the winner, and, therefore, he may not be the choice of the majority. It has been argued that the citizens of a country like the US do not necessarily vote for the president, or they do not cast their votes to elect the president, but, mostly, they just dictate the actions of the Electoral College. Since the Electoral College actions are the opinions of the nation’s Senators and Congressmen, it also reflects that people vote to dictate the actions of these Senators and Congressmen. The presidential elections, therefore, may not necessarily reflect the views of the people because their views are dictated by the Electoral College (Cummings & Wise 362, 363). The US citizens feel that the voting for the presidential candidate is supposedly the pledged to be done by the Electoral College and the nation’s Senators and Congressmen. Their casting of ballots is, therefore, only a guide to the Electoral College in choosing the president. Ironically, the people vote for the electors instead of the leaders they wish because the Electoral College is manned by the Senators, and Congressmen whore could therefore be taken as the electors. Another effect of the Electoral College to the presidential election is about the distribution of votes among states. In the US, for instance, the electoral votes in each state are not distributed based on the popular votes cast to each candidate but the winner is taken to be the one with the popular vote in each state. It is taken that the ‘winner-takes-all’ basis is the general policy. According to this policy, the States that have a large number of voters are treated unfairly because the person with the popular vote, especially where the contestants are many since the popular vote winner may not be the best choice of the people (Cummings & Wise 362, 363). The percentage of the people who did not give him their approval may generally be higher than those who gave him their votes. The popular vote system that the Electoral College applies is therefore full of faults because if every elector is voting for the candidate he represents, then the system makes no logic in the elections. The votes of the majority,