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=__**Amendment**__=

All votes shall be accounted for from each state completely. Each district must have counted the amount of votes that each candidate receives. The districts shall send out the chosen senate votes for the presidential candidate for that was chosen. Therefore, every senate has a voice to chose who becomes president.

This method would abolish the Electoral College and require each person to cast one vote for the candidate of their choice. The candidate who receives the most votes nationwide would win the election, with or without a majority of the votes. This option would require a constitutional amendment to be implemented and would therefore need the support of 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states.

This method of voting would more accurately reflect the popular will of the nation at large. Statistics have shown that more people vote when they know that their vote has a better chance at making a difference. Since each vote would affect the final total used to determine the winner, a direct vote would eliminate the Electoral College’s ability to create a non-competitive winner-take-all enclave that essentially dilutes people’s votes. Direct elections are simple and popular, and eliminate the potential problem of “faithless electors” betraying their pledges to party and public, and unfairly negating any number of popular votes.

A direct vote, however, would not eliminate the entrenchment of the two party system nor the “spoiler” considerations of minor parties and independent candidates. In a close race, voting for a candidate from a minor party could reinforce the same spoiler dynamic as exists within the current system. There is a possibility that with multiple candidates, a winner could be declared with just a small plurality of votes instead of a strong majority. Also, a close election would require a nation-wide recount rather than just recounting the states in question, which would make the process in such a situation much longer.

In the event of a tie, Electoral votes will be then taken into consideration by the House of Representatives.

=__**Position Paper**__= We believe that the Electoral College should be thrown out. The Electoral College is a body of electors chosen to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. There are 538 of these electors in each state in America. If for some reason they can’t come to a decision, then the Senate or the House of Representatives may end up dealing deciding who will become president or vice president. This means that the people’s choices in those states don’t really matter because in the end, everyone is going to look for what the Electoral College chose instead of what the people chose.

The Electoral College was started in 1787. So the Electoral College first started around the time when the people didn’t really understand what as going on in the country. Back then they only had horses for transportation and every vote was on paper. Think about how hard it was to carry the results around to the thirteen colonies. So the best thing to do while trying to elect a president was to create these electoral colleges to save time and struggle from riding horses around to different states. For a long time now, people have seen this form of voting very simple and very efficient for picking our presidents. But it wasn’t until recently that we saw the people start to really get involved with politics. There famous people trying to get the American people to vote. So this means that everyone is being asked to vote and chose the next president. The only problem is, some of the American people feel as though their vote won’t matter and that they won’t get the person they voted for as president. They have a right to feel this way because of the electoral colleges. Even though this is an efficient source of picking a president, we could change it. The Electoral College was put in place because it helped solved conflicts on the votes and saved a lot of trouble for the riders who receive the state votes.

If we throw out electoral colleges now, then 2 things would happen. One, the result of the election will truly show who the people wanted to be president. This will be truly a democratic way to elect a president because everyone’s vote will actually count and make a difference. The second change that will happen will be that a candidate’s state won’t automatically let him or her win that state. People that live in the candidate’s home state that don’t agree with his ideas will be able to vote for another candidate to show that no election can be all too predictable.

Our proposal is that we let every Electoral College vote in their districts and submit the number of senates to vote for the candidate they wish to choose. If every district votes for the candidate they wish to support, there would be a closer election. More people’s decisions are heard when the district sends who they want to pick. Due to the fact that the Electoral College causes the district to vote as a state with the other districts, there would be a good half amount of the people who actually voted and didn’t get their voices heard. We propose this new amendment because we believe that the presidential elections should be more democratic.

The only way that this plan could go wrong is if the people decide to not vote anymore. Sometimes people think that if they tell someone to go vote for a candidate, the candidate will win the election. But if the person who wants the candidate to win doesn’t vote, that’s one less voice that is heard. But when George Bush was elected, that idea was proven to not work. Al Gore lost the votes for his home state. Although the Electoral College is faulty, people continued using it anyway. In this current election, everyone is being strongly encouraged to vote. But if the Electoral Colleges don’t exist, then there is a very huge problem with the election of the next president. This type of problem will most likely end with the same results as the presidential election of 1800. But as said before, people now are being pushed to register to vote. So many people will be registered to vote from now on. Which means that without Electoral Colleges, more people will feel as though their vote matters and will then bring in even more voters in the next 4 years.

__**Rebuttal**__
The decision to have an Electoral College vote was made when our country was still young and more thought of as a group of independent states rather then one nation. Things have changed a lot since 1804 when this Amendment was first put into the constitution. Being that its 204 years later we are defiantly now one nation and the electoral college stops us from having as much choice in voting as we should have for our next president. People don’t seem to understand that we don’t need to keep this amendment around, it doesn’t serve a purpose in this day and age.

Why do we even need an Electoral College system to vote for each state? If they decided in the end is there much point in our part in this process? The Electoral College actually takes away from what America is supposed to be all about. We are supposed to have rights like freedom of speech and the ability to chose things for ourselves. The people should feel blessed to have this right, and most don’t even realize that there is a group taking it away from them for no reason. Some might think that the Electoral College makes all the votes more even but it really just creates a bunch of safe and swing states. Which in-turn leaves about a good two thirds of the country. This doesn’t seem very fair at all.

“Why would we let each district decide instead of each state?” We believe that if each state votes for a candidate, a huge amount of people won’t be heard in this election. If we took it down to the districts, more people would be heard because the Electoral College wouldn’t be in affect to let the majorities win. The districts would be the best choice because there are more senates in districts than cities. When the districts vote, it would be a lot closer election than anyone has ever expected.

No Electorial College
http://www.scienceleadership.org/drupaled/audio/jhurtt/24-oct-2008/3076

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