I believe that the "Founders" purpose for the Electoral College was to help elect the
president in what they would've thought was a fair manner. It was broken up between the
legislative and executive branch, but they also wanted to make sure that the equal number of
representatives from each state had a vote in the next president in power. There are 538
electors in the Electoral College but only 270 of them matter to make up the win for
presidency during the elections.I think that the role of the Electoral College has changed
over time because of making changes to the constitution revokes our amendment. These
changes were made to see if they were capable of holding and carrying out an election in a
different way to make it "fair" but those only tarnished and changed America and how we
live along the way. One change was when the selection of electors was left to the state
legislatures. Another happens when they 2 elections that came when the winner actually lost
the popular vote.I don't think that they should change the parties nor their position of
importance because it does deviate how the views of the American people are. There are
some the strongly have beliefs on how country is to be ran and others have other beliefs as
well. All the changes the voting system has went through in the past, never really worked to
begin with so basically "Don't fix what isn't broken!". The "Founders" original purpose of
the "Electoral College" was because they felt as if they couldn't trust people to make
electoral decisions on their own. They wanted the president chosen off of what they thought
was an enlightened statesmen. Which in my own opinion, wasn't that bad of an idea. Back
then I'm sure it was a lot harder to trust people who are working with an election, especially
without all the security we have now a days. The purpose has changed from back then to
now because now we have the electoral college in place because now whenever we are
voting as U.S citizens now, the number of electors that each state gets, is equal to the
number of representatives and congress. For example, each state gets to vote and is later
combined which determines the outcome. Also to touch back on the first questions, African
Americans were not aloud to vote back then, Caucasian males were the only ones who had
the upper hand in voicing their opinion. However, things have changed drastically and now
the African American culture is now able to vote, along with many other rights and
privileges.
I most definitely believe that the United States should change the two party system,
personally I don't agree with how things are being run as of today. This specific system has
made it to where not everybody can have a voice, and if they do have a voice they are not
heard. All I hear is our government talking about how people matter, and their voice should
be heard, also, how important they are. Frankly, I don't think they care about anything other
then money and trying to dictate how people should live their lives. The founders' original
purpose for the Electoral College was to give all the states, and the citizens an equal say in
the nations matters regardless of state size.
Overtime, the Electoral College has been changes by statutory amendments. It has affected
timing and the process of choosing a presidential candidate, but it didn't change the structure
or outcome of the Electoral College.I believe the United States should NOT change the 2
party political system. I feel that our voting system is complicated enough and adding
another or several parties would just worsen things in that matter. Elections have certainly
changes throughout the years and the parties, rather then fade away, they have continued to
evolve and remain critical to the functioning American Democracy. The original purpose for
the Electoral College was to give equality to all the states and its citizen's. They really did
not trust congress and wanted to have the option to vote in the president, rather than one
being chosen for them. When the Electoral College for the first four elections the candidate
with the most votes would win. In 1796 they tried to do something different and elect a
president and vice president from opposite parties. This did not go over to well with the
voters who were confused. In 1800 there was a tie with Jefferson & Burr. Jefferson was
chosen but because of this outcome the constitution was changed in 1804. Our twelfth
amendment was created which replaced article II, Section 1, clause 3. I do not think that
they should change our two party political system. It could cause more problems and issues
with multiple parties with there own views and beliefs. Processes would take even longer
with more parties to count and tally up the votes for each political party. The founding
fathers of this country created the electoral college as an alternative for electing the president
of the United States instead of electing the president by the people or by the popular vote, or
having congress pick who they thought the president should be. The role of the electoral
college has changed from it's origin, because its purpose was to have the electors cast the
vote for whomever the majority of the voters voted for, but instead we have rogue electors,
who instead hijack the presidency, by instead of casting the vote of the people, instead
choose to vote for whoever they think is best to be the president, an example of this was
when Donald Trump ran against Hillary Clinton. Hillary definitely won the popular vote,
which means she should have won the electoral college but rogue electors gave the
presidency to Trump. I think that the United States should consider changing the two party
political system at times because, they are at arms with one another. If the main purpose of
the party is for the people, whether it's keeping the wealthy rich and wealthy or helping the
unwealthy and underprivileged obtain more, it isn't working, because they are always
fighting trying to gain more power than the other party. The founders' original purpose for
the Electoral College was to prevent corruption between the executive and legislative
branches but they also did trust the popular vote to select the President. Voters just didn't
have the knowledge or resources to know the candidates especially in 1800's when news and
information took so long to get around. Ultimately, the founders' never intended the
elections to be decided by the people or the electors but by the House of Representatives.
The purpose of the Electoral College changed from its origination to today has changed
because originally the electoral college was to be elected by the people. The electors would
then vote for the President and Vice President the was supposed to. Today we vote based on
party lines. An example would be in 2000 when Al Gore and George H.W. Bush was
running for President. Al Gore was the current Vice president and had won the popular vote,
but Bush won the electoral votes.
I believe the United States should consider changing the two-party political system because
the 2 parties have become what they was never intended to be. The lines between the 2
parties aren't cut and dry. Many years ago, you could be a conservative Democrat or liberal
Republican. Now liberal is used to define a Democrat and to be conservative you must be
Republican. I believe if we had other viewpoints to vote for outside of the two party system
that people could have the same fair chance to know the candidate then people would vote
outside party lines we are used to. From the beginning until now there have been some
massive changes, one example, in the beginning, only white male landowners were allowed
to vote, African Americans and women did not have the right. Today regardless of race or
sex if you are 18 years old and a United States citizen you have the right to vote. One
example of change over the years is, voters can mail in their ballet, which became effective
in the year 2020. The purpose of the Electoral College (the process to elect the president)
was established to be able to come to an agreement for the presidential election by popular
vote and qualified citizens ,"Compromise between the election of the President by a vote in
Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens" section).
From what I have learned over the last five weeks neither the Democratic nor the
Republicans are doing a respectable job and, in the future, a third party may be required. I
am not sure if the information we get today helps us to make a better decision on who to
vote for. The information we receive from newspaper articles, television broadcastings, and
even rumours that we read from social media can get confusing, and sometimes we do not
know what the truth can be or not the truth. our voting system is so difficult right now
adding on another party would make it worse, but, I can see your point on changing the two
party system. It does seem to be its all about power, and it has lost the value of being "for
the people".electors in the Electoral College do not act independently; they simply vote for
the candidate that won in their state. When there is a mismatch between the popular vote and
the results in the Electoral College, the cause is distortion in the process.
While I have to agree that the voting system is very complicated. I must disagree that adding
more party options would be a bad idea. I think that our overall options are limited with
lifetime politicians who are bought out by big businesses. Especially now I feel like America
is looking for options beyond what we have. I know wouldn't be easy for someone with no
or limited political background to start out but with the media outlets like Facebook,
YouTube, and others that would make it fairly easy for someone to get out and be seen. Our
government is like other things in life, there is always ways to improve. Our two-party
government can't work together as it is right now and hasn't for years but can't survive
without the other. By having another party, we could have more ideas and maybe even
someone to help the other two side working better together. Yes, they could work against
but there will be on benefits to doing that. In order for them to even get into office they will
need to win votes from both sides. United States should not change and add more political
party into the system. I had heard of a few of the party's you mentioned before, and some I
had not. I think the two parties are fine. If they keep adding parties to the system, I think it
will just get out of control and cause confusing and issues. Our government is like other
things in life, there is always ways to improve. Our two-party government can't work
together as it is right now and hasn't for years but can't survive without the other. By having
another party, we could have more ideas and maybe even someone to help the other two side
working better together. Yes, they could work against but there will be on benefits to doing
that. In order for them to even get into office they will need to win votes from both
sides.United States should not change and add more political party into the system. I had
heard of a few of the party's you mentioned before, and some I had not. I think the two
party’s are fine. If they keep adding party's to the system I think it will just get out of control
and cause confusing and issues.
