Understanding the Intricate Political System

The political system, as a whole, is one of the most complex and carefully thought out forms of government in the world. Since voting season is coming up once again, it’s important to understand why we vote and what happens when we do. This is why I’ve compiled this easy-to-understand article explaining this semi-foreign subject.

The Electoral College:

Few people grasp the concept of what the Electoral College is. Even fewer actually recognize the name. So, what is it exactly? Why do we even have one?

The Electoral College, in a nutshell, is a third party group of ordinary people who are chosen to act as representatives, equal in number to the House of Representatives and Congress, to the states. The founders of America did not trust the president or its people alone to choose the following president, so they enacted a third factor that would, in theory, prevent the corruption of the system.

The states themselves create systems and take care of the voting. Depending on what the states decide, the Electoral College’s representatives then place a vote based on the popular vote of the state they’re representing. So, for example, if you had 100 people vote for Bob and 101 people vote for Joe, the representative would vote for Joe in the election if the states decided popular vote was the way to go. If that were the case in every state and Bob had fewer votes than Joe every single time, then all the representatives would vote for Joe. But as far as I understand, any individual in the Electoral College has the ability to change their vote, and the states do not structure their voting systems exactly the same way.

So why is it important to vote if my vote can be swayed a different direction?

Because, despite the fact that there are three systems in place here, those systems only work if there are votes to count. If one candidate winds up with many more votes than the other because people did not vote, then it could become a severe issue. Besides, who doesn’t like expressing their opinions? Honestly, the system works better if there are more people voting during the election because it would be far more likely that Bob win if he had, instead of a few votes short, a few thousand votes more than Joe.


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