The System is Broken

[Keith Broaders]

The Broken Electoral College

In order to prevent a majority, of ignorant and uninformed voters from electing the President the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College.

George Washington was not elected by the majority of the 3 million people living in the 11 states that had ratified the already ratified the Constitution, He was elected by 69 electors that had been chosen by the legislatures of the states   

One elector was chosen to represent a each of the 47 Congressional Districts and 2 additional electors were chosen at large to represent the states.

The electors were the men considered to be the most qualified to vote for and behalf of the people in their Congressional District,

The first 69 electors were men who had served as elected officials before the ratification of the Constitution. Many of them had been signers of the Declaration of Independence and had fought in the Revolutionary War,

They  were chosen to  prevent a nation consisting of millions of uneducated and uniformed voters from choosing who would be President.

After tge election of 1824, the electors were no longer chosen to represent individual districts, they were chosen to represent the popular will of the majority,

Sometime after the election of Andrew Jackson political  parties emerges and electors began to be chosen by the political parties, rather than the being elected by the people.

By choosing electors on a statewide basis, the method of allocating electoral votes gave all of the electoral votes to the candidate who won the state's popular vote.

This winner take all system  gives all of the votes to the winning the most votes while completely disenfranchising  all of the other candidates,

The wisest man are no longer representing the people as electors, instead the electors are chosen by the political parties,

According to the Constitution electors the legislatures of the states have the responsibility to decide how the electors in their states shall be chosen, The states can not lawfully transfer this authority to the political parties.

The Presidential election is held in 438 Congressional Districts and each district in entitled to 1 vote and each state is entitled to 2 additional votes to represent states at large.