Kadoka High School
Kadoka, South Dakota
Teacher: Teresa Shuck
The Election Process
By Logan Vander May
Grade 11
The election process in this country shouldn’t change. We have had a lot of controversy over the people who have run for president. I know we should just leave the constitution the way it was written and when someone wins the presidency they win. You shouldn’t have people out trying to bring our country apart just because they don’t like the person who was elected for president. The election process works well when people abide by what our Constitution says. If we start to change what our constitution says, we will end up rewriting all the processes that we now undergo in our country.
Whenever somebody wins as election, the other candidate should accept the loss and not try to make a huge deal out of everything. They should be able to accept the loss, and be a rood role model for all the young people out there in the world. Whenever there is a sore loser, they set a bad example for kids. I think that people who complain that people in professional sports have bad attitudes need to realize that when a politician won’t accept losing, they are way worse than a professional sports player.
The way we choose our president nowadays is a foolproof system. I think this allows for the population of the country and for little states to have some control of things. I think that if you were to change to the popular vote, states that were smaller in size wouldn’t have hardly any control, and the larger states would have too much control. When the constitution was written, the people who wrote it thought of how they did not want any state to have more control than other states. I know that every state should be equal.
I know the way the election process should be is to have every state worth only one electoral vote. This would make all the states equal. It would allow people give the electoral vote to the person with the most votes. The amount of votes to win would have to be 26 or higher. This would make it so much easier than anything else. It would allow people to realize that every state should be able to have the same say even if they are smaller in population.
Whenever you think that the popular vote should be used, you don’t realize that most of our countries population is in the big cities. A lot of people are too book smart and don’t realize that most of our countries population is in the big cities. A lot of people are too book smart and don’t realize we need to use the land we have and not save all of it. The more we put into government conservation less we can utilize. If you use the land wisely, you can use it hard enough to make a living but not so much that it hurts it. Most people who are worried for the land just read about it and don’t even go to see if it really is in danger. It isn’t in any danger of being ruined, even if we use it. If we use the electoral process, this will allow people who know what everything really is like to use things that we need. The population of the world is going to keep increasing and we can’t keep using less and less land when we need more. The electoral process allows people who understand things have a larger say than some of the people in the cities that are misinformed and believe everything they read.
The popular vote defeats the purpose of the way the Constitution was written. It says that all states will have the same authority. We need to make sure that no state has any more control than any other state. If you allow a state to more control, the wrong party may end up winning the election. If this happens, there will be an unconstitutional thing that is going on. If you allow one state to have control, then we won’t be as free as we should be.
I know that it would be unconstitutional to allow the popular vote to determine whether or not a certain candidate will win the presidency. We should change the amount of votes to one electoral vote per state. This would make our country so that little states have just as many rights as the larger states. The Constitution should not be messed with.
- John Adams was the president and Thomas Jefferson was the vice President. This happened because the ballot did not clarify which was for president and which was for vice president. John Adams was a federalist, and Jefferson was a republican.
- One was to elect a president by lot. These presidents were to be retrieving senators. Another would be to elect a Native-son candidate. Another was the automatic plan whereas all of state electoral votes would automatically be cast for the candidate who received the highest popular vote. A direct vote plan was proposed by Abner Locock and was defeated 21 to 12. In 1820, James Monroe proposed the plan of the unanimous vote in the Electoral College.
- J. Polk
Z. Taylor
W. Wilson
Harry Truman
J. Kennedy
4. The winner-take-all system is used in every state but Maine. It is a system where all
the people who get all the votes get all the electoral votes.
5. They vote on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. In January
the votes are officially announced.
6. The third party candidate doesn’t get enough votes so everyone in the Electoral
College has to vote for the person who got all the votes. So if someone in the
Electoral College wants to vote for them, they couldn’t.
7. The population for the person would win.
A person who is favored should win.
It gives the 3rd party a better chance.
It allows people to have who they want for President.
Bigger populated states would have more control than littler states.
Some of the presidents have narrowly won by this system.
This way, one party can’t dominate over another just because one city is largely
populated somewhere.
The winner should get all the electoral votes because they won them fair and square.
8. The district plan wants the president to be elected directly by popular vote. The
proportional plan wants to give out electoral votes according to the percentage of
people that voted for them. The winner-take-all plan gives all the electoral votes to
the person with the highest percentage.
9. A way that all states are equal.
A way that the popular vote helps determine the President.
A way that the third party can get into the election process better.
10. When Americans prefer pragmatist to ideologues, they don’t realize what the
pragmatists are saying. People like the person who will have big ideas and try to do
something even if it is impossible seeming.