Electoral College Reform

Introduction

The 2000 presidential elections in the United States were quite confusing to the world. The candidate who had the popular vote and lost them in various states, election officials were unable to do something as simple as counting ballots. The final determination of election made the controversial Supreme Court and the Americans left, and the rest of the world, the question about how to solve the electoral problems in that country.

Discussion

The election controversy triggered the interest of the Congress for electoral reform and presented at least two national reform projects in the field, which made recommendations for reforming the process. These projects and promoting legislation that provide the theoretical framework for understanding how Americans change their way of voting in the presidential election on November 2, 2004, compared to 2000.

In 2000, the Supreme Court attributed the presidency to George W. Bush, with 538 more votes in Florida, was awarded the 25 electoral votes of that state key to successful pass the bar of the 270 votes in the electoral college. The pill was bitter for Al Gore, who had totaled 537,000 more votes nationwide (Wagner). Four years later, a shift of 60,000 votes for John Kerry in Ohio would have cost her re-election to President Bush, who had yet 3.5 million more across the country (Wagner).

The last two presidential elections have made a strong case for the defenders of the principle "one person, one vote" regardless of the district (Neale). In 2001, two law professors, brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, a proposed solution to give prominence to the popular vote, bypassing the difficulty to pass a constitutional amendment: an agreement between states, which are free to designate the method of allocation or the mandate of their electors (Wheeler).

It would thus not be to abolish the ...