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Korey, Maddy
Document A
It should be abolished because you only need 11 states to win the popular vote and it's tell the other states that there vote's do not matter. The other states have more of an advantage to vote for another person that is running. Like if you split the country in half you get 4 states on the West coast and 7 states on the East coast.

Document B
In Document B it clearly shows its unfair. For example in the 1980 election and in the 1992 election the Independent Candidates didn't have a chance at winning. The electoral college seems to care more about what the states want rather than what the people want. These people don't choose one specific person for no reason they choose whomever because they think that candidate would be the best fit for our country.

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Rhythm and Blues/Josh W./Big D

Document A supports abolishing the Electoral College. This is because it shows that the Electoral College does not support majority voting because you can receive no support in one of the regions and still win the electoral college vote. You would also only need to win 11 states through the electoral college system in order to win the election.

Document B
Document B supports abolishing the Electoral College by showing data from the 1980 and 1992 elections. An example of this data is in the 1980 election where Ronald Reagan won 91% of the electoral college and only 50.7% of the popular vote. These numbers are nowhere near close to each other in comparison of percentages which shows that the majority vote of the people overall does not matter. In 1992, Ross Perot ran as an independent candidate and received 18.9% of the popular vote (19,743,821 people) but still received no electoral votes in the election. This shows that third party candidates overall have little to no chance of winning the election because a lot of people can vote for one candidate and still have their votes count for nothing.

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Anthony, Andrew
Document E
Abolishing the "EC" Would make the rich feel more encouraged about winning the election for the seat as the POTUS. When you don't get rid of the "EC" the winning candidate can make it at least look like the MAJORITY of the Americans want him/her to be the POTUS.

ANTHONY AND ANDREW, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING HERE? HOW WILL IT BE UNFAIR IF WE GET RID OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE? ISN'T THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE UNFAIR? WOULDN'T A POPULARITY CO

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Rhythm and Blues/Josh W./Big D

Document C is both and for against the electoral college because of what Mitch McConnell said about inefficiency. He personally believed that inefficiency is actually a positive thing because it keeps extremes/larger candidates from having too much power over the election. But, John Samples says that using the Electoral College system gives states a more important role in elections and this system has been used for years and should be preserved and not changed.

Document D

We personally believe that Document D is for abolishing the Electoral College because of the first piece of information shown to the reader (the quote from George C. Edwards) says that it violates political equality because it favors some states with higher populations over the others.

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Rhythm and Blues/Josh W./Big D

Document E is for the electoral college because Arthur Schlesinger Jr. believes that getting rid of the current winner-takes-all system that we have as of right now would speed the falling apart of the two-party system that we have been using for hundreds of years.

Document F

Document F is for abolishing the Electoral College system because of the event of a tie in the election, the election would go to the House of Representatives and therefore making it so that the people's votes do not matter whatsoever.

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Korey,Maddy
Document C
Shows that you should keep the E.C. because John samples

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Rhythm and Blues/Josh W./Big D

Document G shows that the Electoral College system does not exactly follow what the people want in 5 different occasions (with the most recent one being in the 2016 election) where the candidate wins the popular vote but not the electoral college vote, and situations where the candidate wins the Electoral College but not the popular vote.

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Document A

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Doc A The "EC" should be Abolished Because a candidate can win the presidency by winning only 11 out of the 50 states.

Doc B Is mostly about Abolishing because you can get more populer vote and still lose because the electler vote picks who wins.

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Korey,Maddy
Document C
Shows that you should keep the E.C. because of Mitch McConnell  and how he told us about how the Electoral college pick's are president and how it is easy for them but the system  is not designed to be simple and efficient.

Document D
Shows that we should abolish the E.C.  because it shows us that other states have more electoral votes then other states and they could end up winning the  E.C and they have the more population  then  other states put together

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Doc C Shows that you should keep the E.C because of what Mitch McConnell said about the inefficiency
McConnel argues that the Electoral College is inefficient and complicated, YES, but those characteristics are inseparable from Representative Government in a “large and diverse nation.” Among all of these Diverse Views in America, the Electoral College helps build consensus and actually makes governing easier.(Doc.C)

Doc D is towards Abolishing because if you add up 12 of the smaller states and add D.C you end up with a smaller Population and A Bigger Electoral vote than Illinois

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Korey, Maddy
Document E
Is to keep it. because it says that it would be winner takes all  but if you do the hole party system would end up falling apart and then there would be some problems.

Document F
Is to abolish the E.C. because if there is a tie between the to candidates  it would go to the House of Representative  and were they vote to see who would be come the president

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The Winner in 1824,1876,1888, and the 2000 Presidential election the winner was the one who got the second most Popular vote.

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Korey,Maddy
Document G
Is to abolish the E.C  because if you are a third party you had no chance of winning the Election  and even if you won the popular vote you would not win and  it would always end up going to the second person in the race.

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Document A is against the electoral college because the map shows how unfair the system is and how complex it is. A candidate who loses only California by only a few popular votes receives no electoral votes to show for their effort.

Document B is for the electoral college because it provides evidence that the winner of the election can gain legitimacy by gaining a large majority in the electoral college when the popular vote was small.

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Document C is for the electoral college because it gives the states a important role in picking the president and supports democracy.

Document D is against the electoral college because document provides an argument that it undercuts the principle of one person so the electoral college should either be changed or abolished.

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Document E is for the electoral college because the document says it supports the two party system, stops random people from entering the race, and helps express the peoples' opinions.

Document F is against the electoral college because the document shows a flaw if no one wins the electoral vote. Each state is given one vote in the House of Representatives which is not democratic at all. It might give an impression of instability.

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Document G is against the electoral college because it shows how different the poplar vote is from the electoral vote. If the goal of the election is to make the people happy, then why use the electoral college?