The Electoral College

The Electoral College is a poorly designed system. Instead of allowing the people to directly vote for the chief executive, the people vote for electors that vote for the chief executive. Generally, these electoral votes represent the same majority as the popular vote. However, this is not so in 4 cases. The elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 were lost by the man with the majority of popular votes.

The current system gives each electoral vote of a state to one candidate, regardless of their margin of victory in the state. Someone can get all of Maryland's 10 electoral votes with a margin of 1 million or 1 single vote.

There has been suggestion that this is overhauled so each Congressional District gives its electoral vote seperately. Then the 2 Senatorial Electoral votes of each state go to whomever wins the state as a whole.

This system is better, as it gives a lower level more power over the election.

But it's still not a perfect system. Conceivably, somewhere down the line, the popular vote majority would still not be for the same candidate as the electoral vote majority.

The only solution I have been able to come up with is to get back to the roots of democracy. Let the people vote for the president directly! We are accustomed to voting directly for our Senators. However, they were initially elected by elected officials the people had already put into office. It was not until the 19th Amendment that Senators were directly voted for.

We need to continue progressing as a country, and thus we need an amendment to the Constitution allowing direct election of the president. It is clearly and definitely the only truly fair way to go about our elections.