Would the United States have a more democratic voting system if the electoral college was abolished?
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I believe so...If you remember the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore actually WON the popular vote..but because of the electoral college system, which personally I think is ridiculous, George Bush actually ended up "winning". So I'd say yea absolutely because majority wins..
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You probably need some sort of electoral college, if not exactly the current one. Imagine the chaos if you had to do a recount of every single vote in the country after a narrow election. Part of the problem is, I think, the "winner takes all" for most states. If the candidates got electoral college votes in proportion to their vote within the state, the result would be more democratic.
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Perhaps, but that wasn't the intention. The intention was to create a federal constitutional republic. The word "democracy" is not mentioned either in the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution, and the attitude of those who wrote the constitution was that democracy was one of the worst, most unstable forms of government. Wish I could give you all the quotations, but I never expected to have to prove the point. The Electoral College means that politicians have to offer something to everyone... not just people in the biggest cities.
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Yes, it would be more democratic. In a pure democracy, everything (laws, policies, etc) are voted on by everyone; therefore, eliminating the electoral college would bring the United States closer to a pure democracy. (The US is a representative democracy.) Whether or not that is a good thing is open to debate.
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Direct vote that is the only way, forget the other crap. By the people for the people there is no other way. So the answer to the question is yes.
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