The Electoral College should be abolished! Did you know that to become the President, a candidate must not have a majority of  votes? In 2004, President Bush was re-elected when something called the Electoral College elected him… 41 days after the election in which the rest of America voted in. 

The concept of the Electoral College is relatively simple; each state is assigned an amount of electors, (who each have one vote) based on it’s size. After the election, the electors go to their state capitol and vote. This is a broken and unnecessary system! The American people (who voted, of course) have spoken on election day, and the Electoral College is simply a possible loophole, another way for a dishonest candidate to  game the system. Even if the Electoral College operated flawlessly every single year, it would still be a completely superfluous organization. If you already have America’s opinion, why would you base who becomes president off of a much smaller group of people? 

In conclusion, the Electoral College is a completely unneeded and flawed system. Even Russia, a formerly communist nation has a more sensible system for electing their government officials; they use direct election in lieu of an Electoral College or something similar. Support election reform!