Persuasive Essay On Electoral College Vote

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Two weeks after election day and votes are still being counted. The President-elect is assembling his cabinet and the popular vote continues to grow for the losing candidate.
Clinton's popular lead is now around 1.7 million votes and continues to increase. Most states are still counting absentee and mail ballots and deciding whether to count provisional ballots cast by those without proper identification or not appear on registration lists.
Nearly all states will complete and certified their counts by Dec 13 in time for the meeting of the electoral college on Dec 19. The 538 members of the electoral college vote according to the results in each state. According to the 23rd amendment to the Constitution, they represent the 435 members of …show more content…
So ended the independent thinking of the electors. And once one state took that direction, the other states followed in order to have the strongest effect on the election.
The "winner take all" method of selecting electors is a state right. The Constitution gives each state the power to decide how its electors are chosen (Article II, Section 1, Clause 2). Maine and Nebraska use the congressional district method and select one elector for each congressional district by popular vote and select two electors through the statewide popular vote talley. Virginia has proposed the electoral votes be distributed based on a popular vote winners in each of the congressional districts with the statewide popular vote winner receiving two additional electoral votes.
Any plan suggested must be careful of being susceptible to gerrymandering, which is a practice intended to give voting advantage to the incumbent political party by manipulating district boundaries. Gerrymandering is used most often in favor of incumbent ruling political parties with the thought that if they do their job well they will never lose another
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