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.