Yes, and switch to a representative democracy (popular vote) system

The electoral college is an ancient system used for when people were more patriotic towards their state than their country. Those times are over and now a loud minority is abusing the system to try to win the election. People vote, not land.

The Electoral College prevents the US from being a true democracy because it can choose the candidate that the popular vote did not and the Electoral College has first say. The Electoral College was created during a time in history when many were unable to leave their houses to vote due to work and chores. However, today we live in a digitized world where you can vote from your phone. Democrats and republicans will have say in the next president of the US simply by how many vote.

The popular vote might not always be what some people want, or what I agree with, but it is without a doubt the most fair to the public and people, as long as we get MORE PEOPLE to vote, instead of only the people with agendas.

I shouldn't need statistics and data to prove that we should be following the popular vote system. If 54% of the population votes one way, that's the choice that the majority of the population agrees on. It's not a hard concept, we've done this since grade school. The electoral college was just a reinvention of the wheel.

There have been four elections in which the person elected president won the electoral vote, but lost the popular vote (1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016).

If we have the Electoral College to decide the president, why even have the popular vote if it does not matter.

Currently, every state is of a certain importance during a presidential election. Eliminating the EC would result in most of the Union being forced to live under the voting patterns of a handful of states. These states would become disaffected and you would see voter turnout collapse. Why shouldn't Virginia or Colorado have a say in who becomes President? Why shouldn't Louisiana or Indiana?

Mob rule would be disastrous for the entire country. in truth the federal government should be the least impactful

America has more liberals then conservatives, republicans may never win another popular vote again so if electoral college was stopped, then Republicans will not win another election again.

The electoral college does not and has not ever provided a result which lines up exactly with the views of the american people, i belive this is undemocratic.

The electoral college allows for smaller population states to still have an influence over the election, but it still holds close to what a popular vote would look like majority of the time. This allows smaller states to be represented not only by their people, but by state.

If we want citizens opinions to all be equally represented, we need to get rid of the electoral college since it only raises the influence of certain regions and makes their votes count for more than people in more populated regions. Switching to a popular vote system would ensure equal representation.

The populace will flock to the first man who says he can fix everything and populace doesn’t have full understanding of the politics. Which is why we have those in office locally elected by the populace of states, so we may entrust the holders of sed positions to make a concentrated effort to make a decision for the greater of the whole. Electing by popular vote effectively changes nothing.

The whole reason the Founding Fathers implemented the Electoral College was to stop an uneducated public from electing a president. Mob rule is inherently bad.

we should becasue their are many chanes to be made and we need tp be more unified if we want to do that

A popular vote system would completely discredit the votes of more politically diverse and smaller areas.

The electoral college has worked fairly well and should not be changed. Giving ALL the power to elect government officials to the people would be incredibly dangerous for the people that are of oposing viewpoints to the majority. Sustaining the electoral college ensures that the minority is protected from the majority.

This would not ensure representation of the country as a whole. So populated cities where people have the same views would have more representation that an entire state.

Large pockets of like minded population centers would be able to amass the required numbers to continually keep one party in power, and by doing so silence the voting power of a substantial percentage of American voters.

Keeping things that were designed to stay should be followed, changing things will skew everything in the past and keeping things as before is a better direction.

I don’t see a huge problem with this. It’s similar to what goes on in todays world. Majority rules, minority rights.

Electoral college isn't better because it makes each vote irrelevant because this means if a state votes one way, the electoral college can vote another.

The founding fathers gave us our current system out of fear of mob rule or populist voting because they knew the masses can at times be deceived by propaganda.

A state with more electoral votes but less people would be deciding the fate of another states with less but that contains more people. In other words, the minority dictating to the majority.

When we have had 2 presidents in the last 20 years who have won the electoral college but lost the popular vote something has gone terribly wrong. All it takes to win the electoral college is about 30% of the entire us population in a few select states. When it can be held hostage by the few, democracy cannot work for the many.

Electoral college is necessary but it shouldn’t be elitist we need common people running not millionaires and billionaires

The electoral college doesn't allow for equal say among the citizens since the electors only vote based on their ideas and what they believe is representing the people and not what they actually want.

If you elect a representative who lies about their political ideologies and goes against the popular vote of those who elected them, then the people have no voice.

States with extremely high populations like California and Texas should not have an overwhelming influence on whom is elected as President.

While in theory that is a very good system in practice it is not. As say you have 5 people running for office and one person wins with 25% of the vote that would mean that 75% of the people did not get what they wanted. I am all for getting rid of the electoral college but a popular vote system is just not it.

It shows true representation in out government unlike the electoral college system where other people get to choose who to vote for.

Switching to a popular vote gives complete control over voting to New York, Chicago, Houston, Las Angelas and completely disregards everyone else.