Consider the pros and cons to the Electoral College. Do you believe the Electoral College should be reformed?
Respond to this question on your paper:
Do you believe the Electoral College should be reformed? If so, how? If not, why?
These reform ideas were discussed in this lesson:
- Eliminate the Electoral College all together to make the presidential election a strictly national popular vote.
- Keep the Electoral College and change the winner-takes-all system to a proportional system based on the popular vote.
Remember these important points:
- To abolish the Electoral College, it will require a constitutional amendment, which is very difficult.
- Political parties and the winner-takes-all rules of elections are not in the Constitution and would not require a constitutional amendment to change.