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 @9F8DTG6Republican from New York agreed…7mos7MO

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Our founders designed it as a balance for the popular vote and they did all with much deliberation, prayer and purpose. We still need that balance.

 @4QT62TVRepublican agreed…7mos7MO

Competition between states is the genius of the electoral college. States can enact conservative or liberal policies. Citizens and corporations will vote on what they like best by where they reside.

 @9FTXGWY  from Nebraska agreed…6mos6MO

Rural areas would easily have no voice in government if it were entirely population based and rural areas take up more more space and function on an entirely different industry and lifestyle that needs to be represented as much as the people in the city need it.

 @9FTZXCG from Texas disagreed…6mos6MO

Our founders designed it as a balance for the popular vote and they did all with much deliberation, prayer and purpose. We still need that balance.

 @9F4YZ5Y from Washington disagreed…7mos7MO

It is an inherently undemocratic system that was used by the founding fathers as a compromise during the creation of the government. It is archaic and useless in a modern democratic republican society and should no longer exist.

 @9FTJGQ5from Maine agreed…6mos6MO

The current system is enshrined in the constitution. It requires national candidates to campaign to the entire country, not just population centers.

 @9GL82K5 from Connecticut agreed…5mos5MO

The electoral college makes sure smaller states do not get over run by the population of larger states with larger populations.

 @9GNVW3W from Georgia agreed…5mos5MO

The electoral college is an important part of the election process, and I think it is beneficial considering the lack of knowledge on politics the majority of Americans hold.

 @9FDBNGYMountain from Ohio disagreed…6mos6MO

The electoral college makes the votes of many Americans invalid. Many elections have been won via electoral college while the peoples consensus was different

 @9F862FV from Oklahoma disagreed…7mos7MO

It effectively devalues a person's vote in large states, while granting value to votes in smaller states. It is anti-republican and anti-democratic.

 @9FP63GP from Pennsylvania agreed…6mos6MO

The Constitution should be respected over everything, and there is a purpose to it and the electoral college is made for the reasons.

 @9F7T5T5 from Colorado disagreed…7mos7MO

It ineffective and it makes the popular vote useless when it isn't what is used to make the choice for who is a president.

 @9FL6WCL from Georgia agreed…6mos6MO

According to the article in Mountain States Policy Center, Ranked Voting and Electoral College can cause problems with vote delays and make the election rigged.

 @9FBL8RN from California disagreed…6mos6MO

I don't think the electoral college should be a thing, it makes the peoples opinion practically invalid.

 @9F8XBYR from Washington disagreed…7mos7MO

I think that the idea of the electoral college has been scrapped from the government. The districts and votes that allows states to have more votes than almost 90% of other states makes it unfair to the side that doesn’t have those votes. This is shown by how many delegates are without California, Texas, New York, and Florida.

 @Alvi from Missouri disagreed…7mos7MO

The states with smaller amounts of inhabitants will have more power than the states with higher amounts of people inhabiting them. Land doesn't vote, people do.

 @9F7QBR3 from New York disagreed…7mos7MO

The electoral college provides less of a voice of the people in a vote. The people aren’t truly getting to vote for who they want.

 @9FFMWG6 from California disagreed…6mos6MO

The electoral college overweights presidential voting power on certain states with lower population but high electoral representation. It creates a game where campaigns focus on just those 6-7 critical states versus the general US population.

 @9FBLGTR from Tennessee disagreed…6mos6MO

Votes are unequal across different states, those with less population have more power. Democracy is by the people not a group.

 @9F9JS2FReform from North Carolina disagreed…7mos7MO

The Electoral College has the representation of the entire nation. Also, voter fraud is less effective in this system which makes it more efficient than the popular vote.

 @9F5GHV3Democrat from Indiana disagreed…7mos7MO

The Electoral College removes the agency from many citizens in large States. Take California and Texas for example. California is consistently a Democrat state, but has more Republican voters than Texas. These voters have no voice in the election because of the EC. Also some say that the EC gives power to smaller States, but this isn't true. Currently elections come down to a handful of swing states that are mostly medium sized (PA, WI, AZ, GA, etc.). The smallest States are regularly ignored.

 @9GL8PPF from Iowa agreed…5mos5MO

We would have no voice in certain states like Iowa, it would come down to the populous areas like NY, California, and other large metropolitan areas. That was not how our founding fathers designed it. They spent a lot of time to design the system to be fair to all

 @9FVH8L7Republican from Georgia agreed…6mos6MO

By changing to a representative democracy, it still give power to the people along with giving the citizens actual weight to their votes.

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