Electoral College Reform Article

Facts/Details
1. Electoral college is malapportioned because each state get two electoral vote, regardless of the ste's population, in addition to votes equal to the state's delegation in the House of Representatives
2. Malapportionment is transparent- compare a candidate's percentage of the electoral vote with him percentage of the popular vote (especially in which the popular vote winner loses in the Electoral College
3. In the 2000 election, there is no doubt that Gore really did win the popular vote (he had the entire nationwide vote)
4. The fact that the Electoral College is undemocratic is not decisive against it any more than the fact that the Senate is malapportioned or that federal judge are not eleced at all, need be thought a flaw in our system of government
5. Two purposes important to the framers were preserving the balance among the states that had been struck in the design of the Congress and without confiding the election of the President to the Congress, a method of achieving objective that would have weakened the Presidency unduly
6. By the Constitution the election of the President by the House of Represenetatives if no candidate recieved a moajority of the electoral votes
7. The two party system doomed any hope that the Electoral College would choose the best person to be Presidnet, since the choice would be limited to the candidates picked by the parties
8. The implicit theory was that the public at large is more competent to pick individuals who can pick a President well than to pick the President directly.
9. The practical concern is that electors are not bound to cast their votes for the candidate to whom they are pledged
10. We need a constitutional amendment rather than on abolition of the Electoral College

Questions
1. Why did the electoral college start?
2. Who supports the electoral college? Why?
3. If everyone is so against it, why not change it?
4. What can we do to better organize voting? Will the system ever change?
5. Shouldn't we change since the founding fathers did not know 2 parties would form?
6. Is it fair if the one with popular vote loses?