Electoral College

I do believe that the Electoral College is a valid way to elect the President today.If the voting method was a popular vote there would be much more of a controversey between and within states.Some would vote for canidate A, others B and some would vote for C so in teh end the electors in each state keep teh voting fair for each state because each elector, representing X number of people,will have teh same affect in teh government. Our state, Washington, has 11, 9 electors adn 2 representatives.

The Electoral College has 583 votes, so teh majority would be 270there is 535 from teh states and 3 for the District of Columbia. The !st canidate to reach teh majority of 270 becomes the President Elect. THis way of voting is much neater adn much fairer than letting millions of people vote. The population does change everyday so a popular voteis too much. Again, with the electoral college, your vote is counted in your state to see which canidate your state is voting for. Then which ever canidate who was tallied the most in you state the electoral votes go to, in our case 11, goes towards the canidates goal of 270.

If a tie or nobody reaches 270, the House of Representitives chooses teh canidate with the most electoral votes to become the President elect.

In the election of 2000 the votes were so close. George Bush won with 271 electoral votes and Al Gore had 266. This shows how close the elections can be. Although most of the states were republican the vote was surprising on how close they were.

Although the Electoral College has been around for hudreds of years doesn't mean it doesn't work today.