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Why did the US create the Electoral College?
The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by Congress. Several weeks after the general election, electors from each state meet in their state capitals and cast their official vote for president and vice president.
Who Cannot be in the Electoral College?
What are the qualifications to be an elector? The U.S. Constitution contains very few provisions relating to the qualifications of electors. Article II, section 1, clause 2 provides that no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Does India follow Electoral College?
The President of India is indirectly elected by means of an electoral college consisting of the elected members of the Parliament of India and the Legislative assemblies of the States of India and the Union territories (having an elected assembly).
What country is a pure democracy?
Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state).
Do other countries use the Electoral College?
Other countries use the same type of Electoral College systems that we do, including Ireland, where the Seanad Eireann, the Senate, is not directly elected like the President, who appoints the Taoiseach, but rather elected by means of a system like our Electoral College system.
What would happen if the Electoral College didn’t exist?
If it didn’t exist, no one today would consider creating it. But the Electoral College is worse than merely useless. Its primary function is to malapportion political power, and it does so — indeed, has always done so — with strikingly awful consequences.
Why don’t states enfranchise electors?
Because a state’s number of electors is based on total population, not actual voters, it gives the states no incentive to enfranchise new groups of people, or to make voting easier for those eligible.
Is it time to get rid of the Electoral College?
It is long past time to get rid of the Electoral College. This is not a new claim: People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one, at least in recent years, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in “Let the People Pick the President.”