How the Electoral College Works?

To understand how the Electoral College works, we will start with a little bit of background on how the Electoral College was chosen to be the official process to choose the president and Vice President of the U.S.

The Electoral College started on the 1804, it all started when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 considered different methods to choose the President and Vice President. In fact, the methods that the Convention thought would be useful to choose the President were: that Congress will choose the President, or the President will be chosen by popular votes,however, a lot of people did not agree with these type of methods because they thought that it was unfair because if they let the Congress to choose any person that they want, it will not benefit the people because the person that Congress will put as President will only talk and act as the way Congress wants it. After having thought what will be the best method to choose the president, the founding fathers found out that a President can be chosen by the people by a majority of votes. Accordingly, to become President, a candidate must have won a total of 270 votes of 538. To be able to win this total of votes a candidate must win the states with the majority number of senators and house of representatives because this number will represents the state, also people take an important place by voting.

In fact, choosing a President is not an easy action to do because the process to choose a president might take a while because as we mentioned before the candidate has to get a certain number of votes. Additionally, in order to get the majority of votes, the candidate has to complete certain steps,for example, a candidate has to get propaganda, a propaganda is when the candidate tries to convince or inspire people to vote for him,and accordingly to accomplish this action the candidate must travel to different states to see how he can inspire people to vote for him, he must listen to people to see what projects they can do at some future to benefit the people. Therefore, nowadays when this election takes place majority of candidates might try to get the states with the biggest number of votes or the states that they know for sure that will both for their party. However, they will put all of their effort to win the majority of states.

During the time of elections, people take an important place by voting because by doing it, they are deciding what is going to be best for them. People will look for better projects.

In conclusion the Electoral College is considered the best method that the founding father could have decided because it not only shows fairness,but also this method shows that people will get benefit it. And that's why it is important to vote because if we the people don't do it, then the President could be any corrupted person that will bring us to the ruins.

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