Do you think the Electoral college would face mass public movement?

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Since the Electoral was established and enshrined in the Constitution of U.S, four times direct vote of presidential candidate was overturned by unfair and biased decision of electoral candidates. There is no statute that requires candidates of electoral to cast their votes in favor of the outcome of the popular votes. They can simply ignore based on the assumption that citizens are uninformed about the merit of their elected candidate, thereby putting the nation at risk of pitiable quality position of leadership. Most critics called for the abolition of the outdated system as being incompatible with modernity. At least more than 700 times of futile reform took place after the Congress received unprecedented public outcries, questioning the equity of the system and whether it preserves the status of minority.

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In 1961, Senator Mike Mansfield said:

"The federal system is not strengthened through an antiquated device [the Electoral College] which has not worked as it was intended to work when it was included in the Constitution and which, if anything, has become a divisive force in the federal system by pitting groups of states against groups of states. As I see the federal system in contemporary practice, the House of Representatives is the key to the protection of district interests as district interests, just as the Senate is the key to the protection of state interests as state interests. Those instrumentalities, and particularly the Senate, are the principal constitutional safeguards of the federal system, but the Presidency has evolved, out of necessity, into the principal political office . . . for safeguarding the interests of all the people in all the states. And since such is the case, in my opinion, the presidency should be subject to the direct and equal control of all the people."

 

 

History

At the birth of our nation the constitutional convention considered several methods for choosing president. A direct vote of the people was considered, but was rejected as the Framers of the Constitution feared that citizens would not have sufficient information regarding candidates outside their state or region. The electoral college, it was hoped, would allow for "informed individuals" to choose the President based on merit and not politics.

 

Of course, this was hundreds of years before the internet and free flowing information. In the days of the constitutional convention, there was no radio or telephone - "high speed" communication was horseback mail delivery. "Mass media" was the local one page newspaper.

 

Ultimately, the electoral college system engendered the two party system that we know today. And over the years there have been numerous anomalies including several cases where presidents were elected even though they received a minority of votes.