There’s something wrong with the Electoral College. I think that if someone is voted for by a majority of the voters in the country, then he or she should win the election.

Why should someone who received fewer votes than the other candidate win? It really shouldn’t be this way.

There have been three times in history when someone has won the popular vote but lost because of the Electoral College. Most recently, as most of us know, in the 2000 election. George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore but won the Electoral College. It also happened two other times, in 1888 when Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison, in 1876, Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election to Rutherford B. Hayes.

There was a time when I could understand the reasoning for having the Electoral College.

But, in today’s world, we have sufficient communication tools, and if you want to, you can learn about the candidates. I feel that the candidate that the majority of people in the United States feel should be our president and vote for, should be our president. We need to get rid of the Electoral College system.

Joseph Hosch

Freshman

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