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This 4 page paper discusses Colorado’s attempt to amend its electoral process, what the Electoral College is and why the amendment failed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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approve the change. Discussion The U.S. Electoral College, most people agree, is an obscure and archaic institution that no one really understands. Because it is in place, the American
people do not actually vote directly for the President; instead, we vote for a states electors, who then vote for the President. The number of electors each state has is
determined by the population of the state, and because the system is so strange, and because all of the electoral votes of a state go to the candidate who wins
that states popular vote, it is possible for a candidate to be elected President who didnt win the popular vote nationwide (Longley, 2007). That is in fact how the current
President won the 2000 election. Or rather, didnt win it, but took office anyway. The Colorado initiative apparently started because Congress has resisted attempts to do away with the Electoral
College, leaving critics who want to change the system working state by state (Saffron, 2005). This was the case in Colorado. To understand how this change would affect voting, Saffron
considers the 2004 Presidential election, in which Bush got 52% of the vote and John Kerry 42%; this would have given Bush five of the states nine electoral votes and
Kerry the other four (Saffron, 2005). As the system is structured now, all nine went to Bush, effectively disenfranchising 42% of the voters. Still, the measure failed to pass,
and the biggest objection to it seems to be that Colorado is relatively unimportant in national politics, especially Presidential races, because it has only nine electoral votes. If it were
to abandon its current system for a direct vote as Amendment 36 would have done, it would have been even less important to candidates, who would have been even "less
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