Why do people criticize the electoral College?

Answer 1

Except in some states, the system is a winner-takes-all rather than proportional splitting of electoral votes and makes the popular vote different from the electoral vote. Also, many see the system as entirely too complex and antiquated since it was made before the country had even a basic interstate road system and the Founding Fathers didn't have as much faith in Farmer Brown than they did the educated plantation or land owner.

Answer 2

The founding fathers saw it as another system of checks and balances. It can be seen as a way of sometimes protecting the rights of the minority. The founders probably also thought of it as a way to check the ignorance of the general population. Information was not as widely and quickly available as it is today, and there was some wisdom in the system. The problem is that the winner sometimes becomes president even if the president elect lost the popular vote. It is not necessarily a bad system, but is it necessary today to have a system that sometimes overrides the popular vote? That is the nature of the disagreement.

Answer 3

The workings of the Electoral College might, and has, resulted in the election of a person as president when that person did not get the majority of votes on a nationwide basis.

Answer 4

Individuals who criticize the electoral college generally are the individuals who supported the candidate who lost the election in the electoral college.

Answer 5

A presidential candidate can have more popular votes (from the people), but lose the election because the electoral college gave 270 or more votes to his opponent.

Answer 6

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