Electoral Reform

Last year’s election involving Bush and Gore heated up a fifty year old debate: whether the Electoral College is still an effective system considering the circumstances the United States now faces compared to when it was created by the founding fathers. The Electoral College is drafted into the constitution and has been used to elect the President of the United States since the beginning of our independence. In the two hundred some odd years …

…believe the selected few should not decide the future of the whole. Because many people like myself are inexperienced, does not mean the entire United States is inexperienced. There are many politically inspired and educated people besides the elected five hundred and thirty eight that should help decide the future of this nation. The future should be left to the open mind of the entire population, and not to the limited mind of the few.