The Electoral College is the United States of America is the voting system used by the United States to vote for the New Presadent of America. The Electoral College is a group of 538 elctors who elect the President. The way the this method of voting works is that each state has a set number of Electoral Collage. This number is equal to the number of of that State U.S. Senators plus the number of U.S. Representatives. Currently there are 538 electors. The reason we use this method dates all the way back to our for farthers. They reasons were that the lack of trust of people, due to that very respected people could make people vote for a certain candate. The second reason is to give the state a voice in the elction. The founding fathers thought that this would maintain the states importants.
I belive that this method is a very good choice then just having the nation population vote. This way it shows that people what party is what state, for exaplme, in the 2008 elction Iowa was mainly a Demorcatic state. Many people do not belive that this is a very useful method of voting. There also have been a couple times that the a candaite won the popular vote but lost the Electoral Collage. There have been four case where the Canadit has won the popular vote but lost the Electoral vote. The last one was in the 2000 election between George Bush, and Al Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral vote.
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