Persuasive Essay on Electoral Colleges In the United States, everyone is guaranteed one vote per person. Everyone has an equal voice in electing people to serve in government. Every four years, during the month of November, American citizens go to the polls to vote for the president and vice president of the United States. Am I right? Not exactly. They actually vote for voters who then vote for our president. I ask myself, “Are we a democracy?” Having the constituency defeats its purpose. I am against the Electoral College for these three reasons, in the 2000 election the president won who lost the popular vote, everyone's vote doesn't really count, plus the Electoral College has stopped the election fifteen times! First of all I would like to bring to your attention that many votes are not even counted if you call the United States a democracy. The way the entire electoral college works is that each state is allowed a certain number of "electors" (the number of the state's representatives plus its senators), who then vote for the president. The voter's vote based on the state's popular vote. After the state verifies the votes, the candidate who receives the most votes gets all of that state's voter votes. Because the state constitution allocates electoral votes in this way, the countless individual votes lose meaning. Does this seem right to you? Not to me. Secondly, do you agree with the 2000 election? Definitely not, I mean the wrong president won the election. Gore received 500,000 more votes than Bush. But who won the elections, Bush. All because of a policy called the Electoral College. It is a very controversial issue. I know many people are unhappy with this election. I thought we were a democracy! And we choose to be presidents, not voters. Finally, these consequences go far beyond simple “fairness” issues. Too many times in American history the Electoral College has single-handedly defeated the purpose of democracy in our country. Since the first presidential election, there have been more than a dozen cases in which someone was elected president without a majority of votes. The following are examples of how the Electoral College has disrupted an election: Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, and now George Bush.