tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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32eb6a2a1073	4F72FF874556	"It can be agured that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example or Republicans."(Source 3 paragraph 9). This is saying that it may turn off potential voter but is all a good thing. It is not a good thing beacause most of the people that vote for a candidate are not ven getting pick.	Evidence	Adequate
2625d3078a4d	4F72FF874556	Now you no why i take that we should not have a Electoral College. It is best to not have on because it way to much.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
f79db268e1f7	4F84013E9056	I think that we should not change the way we vote we should keep the Electoral College	Position	Adequate
d3ee15fd26cd	4F84013E9056	Maybe instead of changing everything we should keep what we have.	Claim	Adequate
f5899f86d502	4F84013E9056	Most likely everthing will be a total disaster. If we change everything it will all fall under the pressure. We really dont need change in the world today as it is. It will be hard to get up after this big of a fall.	Evidence	Ineffective
5469cacdbec5	4F84013E9056	Well what is bad about the Electoral College is that it is unfair for the voters that is doing the voting.	Counterclaim	Adequate
890ade3ccba3	4F84013E9056	Because it is all about the system of winners taking all. Some candidates dont spend time in the states. If they really know that they do not have the chance of winning. They say that this stuff is outdated and irrational. They are thinking of abolishing the Electoral College instead of keeping it.	Evidence	Adequate
c420032c6040	4F84013E9056	But on the other hand what is good about it is that it is widely regarded as an anachronism	Claim	Ineffective
16f3bf3e8473	4F84013E9056	It is a non-democratic method of selecting a president. But it is not a democratic in a modern sense. But it is good because the people vote for a trusted slate of electors. But the trusted electors vote for the party`s nominee. Even though the Electoral College has a lack of most everything.	Evidence	Ineffective
5c881260e493	4F84013E9056	Everyone has that one good argument. Everyone calls the Electoral College a disaster factor.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
48e594d83462	4F84013E9056	It says that the people in America should consider themselves lucky. Well because in the year 2000 a election called fiasco was one of the biggest election crisis in the century. The legislature`s are technically responsible for picking the electors. Well also the electors can defy the will of the people.	Evidence	Adequate
ec19ee226cdb	4F84013E9056	Also this thing can be argued. Well about changing and also maybe keeping the Electoral College.	Claim	Ineffective
9e7926fdbaa2	4F84013E9056	Because there is some pro`s and con`s to this situation. There is going to be up`s and down`s when it comes to this topic. There might be many more to come in the near future. This topic is one topic that everyone is arguing about this day in time	Evidence	Ineffective
3a92d417dda5	4F84013E9056	Well thank you for taking your time and reading my essay. This was a good topic to argue about. I hope my responce will help to understand my point of view of things. I really do hope that we do keep what we have going on with the voting thing. I really do not think we should not change anything. So have a good day and once again thank you for taking the time and reading this.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
987b3dc0e4a1	4F9E529C1FBD	Community service, you want children to do community service my opinion for that is they should in some way and in another they shouldn't .	Position	Ineffective
1ee061a54bb7	4F9E529C1FBD	Opinion one in some way the children should help out picking up trash and help with other things grownups cant do it all the time	Claim	Adequate
0b2f14558899	4F9E529C1FBD	Sometimes they need help so you should get involved and help out every once in awhile.	Evidence	Ineffective
d9d86eeb64d3	4F9E529C1FBD	Opinion two in some way children should not help out	Claim	Ineffective
92310120a8b7	4F9E529C1FBD	You have too think children need every minute of their life with education . This cant be during our time of learning that help us when we get older. Children shouldn't do community service not in till they get little bit older . Time is money and money is in our education to go to college and be successful in our everyday lives.	Evidence	Ineffective
98b49c2f4b5a	4F9E529C1FBD	My point is think about what you put off make the right decision see where the children are if they have extra time they could it after school	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
ea784586415d	4FE5B872FE61	Imagine this scenario: a person is faced with the future--new developments that may lead into the next era of technology. The question now is, should that person deny it or gladly accept it? If that person were me, I'd take it, as there is no point in staying the past and be outdated, and this is exactly how I see driverless cars. The problem now becomes, however, whether this technology is "the future" or not.	Lead	Effective
3b54ad541663	4FE5B872FE61	In this essay I will discuss why cars are the future and thus, why I support them	Position	Adequate
e16d0622df29	4FE5B872FE61	efficency,	Claim	Adequate
746f81ee34c5	4FE5B872FE61	error,	Claim	Adequate
9d54b17b9368	4FE5B872FE61	some critics' are misguided in companion with "Driverless Cars Are Coming".	Claim	Adequate
fa309ea18703	4FE5B872FE61	To start, energy is being consumed in our world at a rapid rate, and much of it comes from sources that are nonrenewable once depleted like the oil used in many cars. Many have seen the solution to switch to alternative energy sources that ARE renewable; however, this does not actually address the bulk of the problem.	Evidence	Adequate
a5e42b479199	4FE5B872FE61	The problem is actually efficency.	Claim	Effective
6c008f04c928	4FE5B872FE61	To demonstrate this, for power to reach a house from a faraway power plant, much more electricity is generated than needed as to make sure it can travel the long distance in cables without losing so much charge that the current becomes weak and useless, and a logical fix for such a problem would be to simply figure out a way to move the power source closer as to achieve higher efficencies. This same logic applies to cars in traffic, which use a lot of fuel to do essentially nothing. When I saw in the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" that Google cofound Sergey Brin--who must be very intelligent as he IS the cofounder of Google, a very widely known and used company--said that these cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis AND offer far more flexibility than a bus, my only logical reaction was that this is a wonderful technology.	Evidence	Effective
dfd5341d854f	4FE5B872FE61	Transitioning to errors, a common theme of accident tragedies is the one where a person is texting and driving leading to distractions that cause the accident. This is not the only cause of accidents, though, as humans are not made to be perfect, small errors also cause accidents, but despite the wide range of things that may cause an accident, driverless cars can cover a person for that as well.	Claim	Effective
3a8c69fcdaea	4FE5B872FE61	My first piece of evidence for this is that driverless cars are machines, and despite having a notoriously bad reputation for failing at times due to some error during the design process, machines do not tire and do not grumble about watching their surroundings; they also need not be perfect, only better than a person to become favorable as a driver. My second piece of evidence comes from, once again, "Driverless Cars Are Coming" when it was stated that "enetertainment and information systems that use heads up displays [...] can be turne doff instantly when the driver needs to take over [in the case that the car senses that its own computing devices are not enough to handle a situation]". This system appealed to me a lot due to how intuitive it is; if a person shouldn't be using something, it turns off, no questions asked. All of these factors further lead me to believe that cars are "the way of the future".	Evidence	Effective
e3d7967e981c	4FE5B872FE61	despite all of these factors there are both criptics and critics for driverless cars.	Claim	Effective
5c409a06d68b	4FE5B872FE61	Some reasons usually brought up that haven't been addressed yet are the issues of laziness with the animated movie WALL-E coming to mind	Counterclaim	Effective
bb2aaa8af82d	4FE5B872FE61	the hacking of the systems that run these driverless cars, which is equally terrifying.	Counterclaim	Effective
3efac942f5e5	4FE5B872FE61	hacking is commonly a misunderstood phenonenon. The aboslute requirement for all hacking is access to the device that someone wishes to hack usually through some internet connection on the device linked to other functions. This is easily remedied through the use of local software on the driverless car, cutting it off from the internet as well as making the entertainment and information systems independent of the driving system.	Rebuttal	Effective
055498a7c31f	4FE5B872FE61	Getting back to the first issue about laziness, people are still sitting down whether in a driverless car or a conventional car and that these cars will likely be extremely expensive with all the added sensors for the foreseeable future, encouraging walking as an alternative to money as well as creating a walking trend so that when these technologies are cheaper, laziness would not become a problem.	Rebuttal	Effective
da5023c72cfa	4FE5B872FE61	I support and adore the idea of driverless cars as they are a way to support using energy more efficently rather than going out of the way to make new sources of energy; they are a way to reduce the unnecessary ending of lives as well as unecessary drama from automobile accidents (especially for me since I'm a very accident prone person); and last but not least, they are a way to promote regular walking and get automobile internet security right. After looking through all of this, I can say for certain that driverless cars will certainly be a huge advantage to our society if only we'd give them a chance because after all, everything deserves a chance and a second for making up for its mistakes.	Concluding Statement	Effective
70ccc0bdb775	5054EC6BA14D	In this essay im going to give you my opinion about the electoral college.	Lead	Ineffective
2bddbbcab623	5054EC6BA14D	My first reason is i dont think a few 100 people should pickk the president, i think the entire nation should pick the president.	Claim	Adequate
3dcb30253bd2	5054EC6BA14D	we dont even get the chance to vote for a president we get to vote for a slate of electors.	Claim	Adequate
b1c35629f4ea	5054EC6BA14D	ur votes might not count.	Claim	Adequate
1e3c7ffa5d76	5054EC6BA14D	I dont think a few 100 random citizens should pick the president, i think the people should beccause what if the entire nation votes for one person but, the few 100 people vote for someone else.	Claim	Adequate
dfb2eee70932	5054EC6BA14D	With only a few hundred electors a rich person could bribe them into choosing who they wanted and it could be someone who got no votes. It is unfair this country has 100s of millions of people and to leave it up to 370 people is proposterus.	Evidence	Adequate
b8d19711fb8c	5054EC6BA14D	Secondly we dont get to vote for the president	Claim	Ineffective
60ddb2d219bc	5054EC6BA14D	lets just say u live in texas and wanted to vote for for john kerry youd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. On the off chance that those electors won the state wide election,they would go to congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office.	Evidence	Ineffective
4d28494e7d39	5054EC6BA14D	So overall Bob dole was right abolish the electoral college!	Position	Adequate
4ef917291f78	505A9D10C001	I am very one sided with the way I feel about driverless cars. I feel that driverless cars are dangerous and hazardous.	Position	Adequate
23c1401be189	505A9D10C001	The cars could be more prone to crashes then when a person is at the wheel.	Claim	Adequate
5c7f0c105b8a	505A9D10C001	"Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash."	Evidence	Adequate
9c1237760b5b	505A9D10C001	This states that the cars are safe for only a period of time. An all computerized car is just asking for the worse when it gets older.	Claim	Ineffective
9cbc61751c30	505A9D10C001	Driverless cars aren't even really driverless, so what's the point?	Claim	Adequate
be4c5cc2bad4	505A9D10C001	But so far, Google cars aren't truely driverless." The idea of a driverless car may put a person to ease, to where they aren't paying attention to the road ahead. The at ease person may become stressed when the car signals to take over. They might not even be ready to take over the wheel. This is a risky thing when coming to complicated traffic issues.	Evidence	Adequate
3fe5c10d4721	505A9D10C001	These driverless cars also seem to be very expensive, something not the everyday person could afford.	Claim	Adequate
7eb72609d2cf	505A9D10C001	The car has even been know to be to costly without the price of the car itself. The article talks about the use of smart roads for the smart cars. "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." The car itself needs a lot of mechanics, such as Dubbed LIDAR, to make sure the vehicle can mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.	Evidence	Adequate
8ed170e45487	505A9D10C001	The article talks a lot about the future of these driverless cars. But I do not think there will be such a future. With the concern of a person's life at risk, the driverless cars will intimidate many. The cost issue will also be an intimating factor. With manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan, many will not be able to afford it. Overall, the bad outweighs the good for this project. The driverless car is simply just not worth it.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
04feb8108fb8	50670624BE51	People are on the argument that NASA would hide an aliean artifact. NASA is trying to cover the possabilty of this artifact being accrute. That NASA would like to have this information to them selfs. The supporters of NASA beleve that NASA would come out with their discoverys. Both sides have a piont of but NASA starts their project to debunk these theorsist.	Lead	Ineffective
5433d8f13385	50670624BE51	NASA capters this photo of the red plant in the year 1976 and shows the photo to the public.	Claim	Ineffective
45aa05ab0a74	50670624BE51	This picture would become big" it became a pop icon and starred in Hollywood films,appeared in books, and ect. Then contriverse started on this could be and an ancient civilization."meanwhile,defenders of NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization. This wouldn't stop thorists, not in the slitest bit.	Evidence	Adequate
566be1b67c70	50670624BE51	After the surveyor srrived at the plant on September 1997 ,18 years after the program ended. NASA said"We felt this was important to taxpayers" explained Jim Garvin. On April 5th, 1998 when the Global Surveyor flew over cydonia. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture	Evidence	Adequate
c34cbadfda0c	50670624BE51	This picture was 10 times as better as the original and shows a natural land form.	Claim	Adequate
a8ffa31b82af	50670624BE51	The picure showed better evidence that the theorist were wrong about an ancient cover up of anything	Claim	Adequate
d58e33704a3a	50670624BE51	Garvin said"So,if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egtptian-style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were. What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or meas. This debunks all explations of theorists every were. NASA has proven them selfs to not being the bad guys in a cover up.	Evidence	Adequate
4707274932bc	50670624BE51	In conclision NASA releases the picture to the press in 1976. Therists say thats NASA is trying to cover up their findings of this civilization. NASA finds out about what people are saying about a cover up .18 years later they are going back to Mars to take another photo with abetter camra	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fc4e9d12879e	50670624BE51	Everything is put to rest with the qulity of the new picture showing better textures and a clear image of this biome.	Position	Adequate
46e6ccecfd73	50964348BC11	So you know that face on mars right? You do, good do you thing that it was made by aliens?	Lead	Adequate
be2364a8fa39	50964348BC11	You do, well let me tell you something it was not made by aleins it was made by comets they hit mars and they made the face because aliens are not real they are fake, so they coundn't of made them.	Position	Adequate
ea50163803f7	50964348BC11	See the comets hit mars in the right place for it to make a face	Claim	Adequate
96807c597865	50964348BC11	I think that it is stuiped that people still think that aliens are real they are not real!	Claim	Adequate
91b37cfbb5f1	50964348BC11	NASA knows that aliens are fake they just want people to think that they are real so they can get more money by spreding rummers that they found a UFO that has crashed in to the earth and the weriod crop cricles that are made into the corn fields, and they make money off of that crap, I think that is stuiped that they get money on that stuff and then there is other people that are trying to find money just to feed themselfs and there childern .	Evidence	Ineffective
29dfb5a1da8d	50964348BC11	The face in mars is just a hugh rock that got hit by some comets and the comets hit in just the right places and they made a face in that rock all the other syuff around it got hit to by a comet to so that is why places near the rock are caved in they got hit by a comet.	Evidence	Ineffective
b73b30a1013c	50964348BC11	So comets made the face in the moon not aliens because remeber aliens are not real they are fake so you can go tell other people this story and one day no one will ever think that aliens created the face in a mars rock.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
bb71e318a712	50DA28892569	The Electoral College is a controversial topic in the US. This is the system used to elect the president of the United States, but most people (60% of Americans, according to source 1) believe that we shouldn't use this particular system and that we should go with the popular vote instead, while all others are strong in their stance that we should continue its use	Lead	Effective
49062a82ba86	50DA28892569	Under the Electoral College, it is entirely possible for a Presidential Candidate to win presidency, even with the majority of voters voting for the oposing candidate. We should discard the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote.	Position	Effective
797bf275e801	50DA28892569	The Electoral College is a system that allots a certain amount of electoral votes to each state. Each state is given 2 electoral votes plus another amount of votes which depends on that state's population. The amount of votes ranges from 3 to 55 (source 3). A candidate must recieve 270 out of 538 possible votes. The candidate the electoral votes of a state go to is decided by the majority vote of each individual state. In all states but Maine and Nebraska give a candidate the entirety of their votes if the majority of its citizen votes for them (source 1)	Evidence	Effective
c2988abac368	50DA28892569	Some people don't even bother voting due to the fact that their vote will not contribute to their favored candidate's election. This happens often when a democratic voter lives in a republican state, and vice versa (source 3)	Claim	Effective
910355e3fbb7	50DA28892569	Many people stand by the Electoral College as the best course of action. They argue that the certainty of the winner is better, a candidate can't win the election due to regional favor, and this system unsures that there will still be a clear winner even when each candidate recieves the same percentage of votes.	Counterclaim	Effective
74c1929e5c14	50DA28892569	We began using the Electoral College in order to ensure that states with low populations weren't ignored by presidential campaigns	Claim	Effective
e08570c6a434	50DA28892569	However, it fails to do just that	Counterclaim	Adequate
3303efd45d2c	50DA28892569	Presidential candidates focus their attention to swing states, in order to win their electoral votes. Candidates have little to no need to campaign in states that have a majority of one party, because their vote is either a lost cause or all but garunteed. If this system does not do the job that it was originally intended for, then why do we continue to use it?	Evidence	Effective
e46a6fe4247f	50DA28892569	In conclusion, the electoral college is ineffective and outdated. we should no longer use this as a system of defining our president. Even though a winner is often more clear, there is still a possibility of a tie between candidates. People who support the Electoral College also argue that its a good thing due to swing states having more attention payed to them and therefore being more careful in their decision. However, this reasoning is flawed in that it assumes that citizens of a state are more likely to inform theirselves thouroughly simply because their vote holds more value, in a sense. Also, candidates would no longer pay special attention to swing states if the electoral college weren't in place so the votes of these citizens wouldn't be held above the rest. Increased value of votes is not a good thing, which this argument also assume. It is the best decision to abolish the Electoral College.	Concluding Statement	Effective
dbfa0c2a10c4	5137514F130A	I think that when picking the president that the people of the united states should be the ones to pick instead the electoral college makes the choices of who we get for president.	Position	Adequate
331a86717d9d	5137514F130A	When you vote along with everyong else i think that the majority of the votes should get that presedent instead of everyone voteing and then it getting sent to the electoral college and them getting to pick who they want wich i dont think is right i think that the people should pick who they want by the votes.	Claim	Ineffective
aed961e44d0d	5137514F130A	The one with the most popular vote should win. When you vote for a presidential candidate you are actually voting for slate of electors. The electoral college consist of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. If you where running for president and you didnt have as many votes from the people as the ofter guy you can still win the election cause of the electoral college is the one that makes the decision to who we have as the president.	Evidence	Adequate
890fea081396	5137514F130A	It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not wing the national popular vote.	Claim	Adequate
5e7506bd1dcc	5137514F130A	This is a very rare thing to happen it has only ever happen twice it happen in 2000 and 1888.	Evidence	Adequate
11991411dc05	5137514F130A	In columbia they are allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college	Evidence	Ineffective
0296a398087d	5137514F130A	In conclusion i think that it is not right that the electoral college gets to pick are president for us but i think that we should be able to pick are president by popular vote instead of haveing that electoral college.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
73d6026e5af7	51464A01F6FC	Arguements on whether the state senator should favor in keeping the Electoral College or change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States are occuring today.	Lead	Effective
bc0ef6f92bf9	51464A01F6FC	Each favor has its advantages and disadvantages, but we should favor in keeping the Electoral College	Position	Effective
99a78bfd2184	51464A01F6FC	because less disputes are likely to happen	Claim	Effective
0fe0d94fc10f	51464A01F6FC	not voting will not effect the election.	Claim	Effective
4389f05fb1e1	51464A01F6FC	On the other hand, changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States has some advantages.	Counterclaim	Effective
f3c36621f7ae	51464A01F6FC	In "Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", author Bradford Plumer claims "the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" because "candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning." This means that the candidates focus on the "tight races of the 'swing' states." To continue, Plumer also argues that changing to election by popular vote makes every vote count	Evidence	Effective
870fe847c9e1	51464A01F6FC	however, chaning to election by popular vote will cause mant disputes and it is not the right way to keep everyone satisfied with voting for a new president. Keeping the Electoral College is more realistic.	Rebuttal	Effective
5fb80658133c	51464A01F6FC	In "Source 3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", author Richard A. Posner explains that the Electoral College "restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution." The Electoral College gives larger states more attention from presidential candidates as opposed to a smaller state. Posner continues the idea with "the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election." To break it down, voters who pay close attention to the campaign will be the most thoughtful voters and they will recieve the most attention from the candidates. This reduces the amount of disputes because the presidential candidates will decide on who to give the most attention to.	Evidence	Effective
31921b57f996	51464A01F6FC	In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", author Richard A. Posner states that "knowing [the voters'] vote has no effect [gives them] less incentitive to pay attention to the campaign." But, "voters in presidential electons are people who want to express political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide and election." This means thatchanging everyone to a single vote will have no effect, too because people will not put thought into who to vote, but they will just vote for whoever.	Evidence	Effective
9d950a66546a	51464A01F6FC	To conclude, the state senator should favor in keeping the Electoral College rather than changing to election be popular vote for the president of the United States because less disputes will occur and not participating will not be effective.	Concluding Statement	Effective
8e3512023ab1	515CEA13AEE5	The Electoral college is a place were they elect the presidant of the united states and the congress choose if they put a vote in for that presidant and his people. The process is the selection of electors next the meeting of the electors and then where would they vote for the presidant and the vice presidant and the counting of the electoral votes by congress the elctoral college consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to vote for the presidant. The presidants election is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in November	Lead	Ineffective
b103e11a02fc	515CEA13AEE5	i think that why would you have the electoral college when you can just vote some other way insted of having this big thing just to elect the presidant and the vice presidant why can't you just have a regular meeting deciding if you are voting for that presidant and the vice presidant the electoral college to me makes no sense why would you have this big thing that makes no sense at all	Position	Adequate
9b66e34192a3	515CEA13AEE5	if you wanted to vote for the presidant then vote i dont get why you have to go through a big system just to vote i think its just easier just to vote a regular way and it takes so long and it also depeneds on what state you are in and how you have to vote in texas if you wanted to vote for a certain person you would have to vote for the slate of 34 or what the number of that person is like for example if you voted for Jhon Kerry you would have to vote for slate of 34 democratic electors it just depends on the state	Evidence	Adequate
c764b5aaa675	515CEA13AEE5	what if there was a tie the election it would be thrown into the house of representatives where the state delegations vote on the presidant and the vice presidant cause only each state casts one vote a single representatives from Wyoming representing 500,000 voters	Evidence	Adequate

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"It can be agured that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example or Republicans."(Source 3 paragraph 9). This is saying that it may turn off potential voter but is all a good thing. It is not a good thing beacause most of the people that vote for a candidate are not ven getting pick.

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Now you no why i take that we should not have a Electoral College. It is best to not have on because it way to much.

Concluding Statement

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f79db268e1f7

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I think that we should not change the way we vote we should keep the Electoral College

Position

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d3ee15fd26cd

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Maybe instead of changing everything we should keep what we have.

Claim

Adequate

f5899f86d502

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Most likely everthing will be a total disaster. If we change everything it will all fall under the pressure. We really dont need change in the world today as it is. It will be hard to get up after this big of a fall.

Evidence

Ineffective

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Well what is bad about the Electoral College is that it is unfair for the voters that is doing the voting.

Counterclaim

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Because it is all about the system of winners taking all. Some candidates dont spend time in the states. If they really know that they do not have the chance of winning. They say that this stuff is outdated and irrational. They are thinking of abolishing the Electoral College instead of keeping it.

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But on the other hand what is good about it is that it is widely regarded as an anachronism

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It is a non-democratic method of selecting a president. But it is not a democratic in a modern sense. But it is good because the people vote for a trusted slate of electors. But the trusted electors vote for the party`s nominee. Even though the Electoral College has a lack of most everything.

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Everyone has that one good argument. Everyone calls the Electoral College a disaster factor.

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It says that the people in America should consider themselves lucky. Well because in the year 2000 a election called fiasco was one of the biggest election crisis in the century. The legislature`s are technically responsible for picking the electors. Well also the electors can defy the will of the people.

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Also this thing can be argued. Well about changing and also maybe keeping the Electoral College.

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Because there is some pro`s and con`s to this situation. There is going to be up`s and down`s when it comes to this topic. There might be many more to come in the near future. This topic is one topic that everyone is arguing about this day in time

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Well thank you for taking your time and reading my essay. This was a good topic to argue about. I hope my responce will help to understand my point of view of things. I really do hope that we do keep what we have going on with the voting thing. I really do not think we should not change anything. So have a good day and once again thank you for taking the time and reading this.

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Community service, you want children to do community service my opinion for that is they should in some way and in another they shouldn't .

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Opinion one in some way the children should help out picking up trash and help with other things grownups cant do it all the time

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Sometimes they need help so you should get involved and help out every once in awhile.

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Opinion two in some way children should not help out

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You have too think children need every minute of their life with education . This cant be during our time of learning that help us when we get older. Children shouldn't do community service not in till they get little bit older . Time is money and money is in our education to go to college and be successful in our everyday lives.

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My point is think about what you put off make the right decision see where the children are if they have extra time they could it after school

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Imagine this scenario: a person is faced with the future--new developments that may lead into the next era of technology. The question now is, should that person deny it or gladly accept it? If that person were me, I'd take it, as there is no point in staying the past and be outdated, and this is exactly how I see driverless cars. The problem now becomes, however, whether this technology is "the future" or not.

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In this essay I will discuss why cars are the future and thus, why I support them

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efficency,

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error,

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some critics' are misguided in companion with "Driverless Cars Are Coming".

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To start, energy is being consumed in our world at a rapid rate, and much of it comes from sources that are nonrenewable once depleted like the oil used in many cars. Many have seen the solution to switch to alternative energy sources that ARE renewable; however, this does not actually address the bulk of the problem.

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The problem is actually efficency.

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To demonstrate this, for power to reach a house from a faraway power plant, much more electricity is generated than needed as to make sure it can travel the long distance in cables without losing so much charge that the current becomes weak and useless, and a logical fix for such a problem would be to simply figure out a way to move the power source closer as to achieve higher efficencies. This same logic applies to cars in traffic, which use a lot of fuel to do essentially nothing. When I saw in the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" that Google cofound Sergey Brin--who must be very intelligent as he IS the cofounder of Google, a very widely known and used company--said that these cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis AND offer far more flexibility than a bus, my only logical reaction was that this is a wonderful technology.

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Transitioning to errors, a common theme of accident tragedies is the one where a person is texting and driving leading to distractions that cause the accident. This is not the only cause of accidents, though, as humans are not made to be perfect, small errors also cause accidents, but despite the wide range of things that may cause an accident, driverless cars can cover a person for that as well.

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My first piece of evidence for this is that driverless cars are machines, and despite having a notoriously bad reputation for failing at times due to some error during the design process, machines do not tire and do not grumble about watching their surroundings; they also need not be perfect, only better than a person to become favorable as a driver. My second piece of evidence comes from, once again, "Driverless Cars Are Coming" when it was stated that "enetertainment and information systems that use heads up displays [...] can be turne doff instantly when the driver needs to take over [in the case that the car senses that its own computing devices are not enough to handle a situation]". This system appealed to me a lot due to how intuitive it is; if a person shouldn't be using something, it turns off, no questions asked. All of these factors further lead me to believe that cars are "the way of the future".

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despite all of these factors there are both criptics and critics for driverless cars.

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Some reasons usually brought up that haven't been addressed yet are the issues of laziness with the animated movie WALL-E coming to mind

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the hacking of the systems that run these driverless cars, which is equally terrifying.

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hacking is commonly a misunderstood phenonenon. The aboslute requirement for all hacking is access to the device that someone wishes to hack usually through some internet connection on the device linked to other functions. This is easily remedied through the use of local software on the driverless car, cutting it off from the internet as well as making the entertainment and information systems independent of the driving system.

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Getting back to the first issue about laziness, people are still sitting down whether in a driverless car or a conventional car and that these cars will likely be extremely expensive with all the added sensors for the foreseeable future, encouraging walking as an alternative to money as well as creating a walking trend so that when these technologies are cheaper, laziness would not become a problem.

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I support and adore the idea of driverless cars as they are a way to support using energy more efficently rather than going out of the way to make new sources of energy; they are a way to reduce the unnecessary ending of lives as well as unecessary drama from automobile accidents (especially for me since I'm a very accident prone person); and last but not least, they are a way to promote regular walking and get automobile internet security right. After looking through all of this, I can say for certain that driverless cars will certainly be a huge advantage to our society if only we'd give them a chance because after all, everything deserves a chance and a second for making up for its mistakes.

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In this essay im going to give you my opinion about the electoral college.

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My first reason is i dont think a few 100 people should pickk the president, i think the entire nation should pick the president.

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we dont even get the chance to vote for a president we get to vote for a slate of electors.

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ur votes might not count.

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I dont think a few 100 random citizens should pick the president, i think the people should beccause what if the entire nation votes for one person but, the few 100 people vote for someone else.

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With only a few hundred electors a rich person could bribe them into choosing who they wanted and it could be someone who got no votes. It is unfair this country has 100s of millions of people and to leave it up to 370 people is proposterus.

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Secondly we dont get to vote for the president

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lets just say u live in texas and wanted to vote for for john kerry youd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. On the off chance that those electors won the state wide election,they would go to congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office.

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So overall Bob dole was right abolish the electoral college!

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I am very one sided with the way I feel about driverless cars. I feel that driverless cars are dangerous and hazardous.

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The cars could be more prone to crashes then when a person is at the wheel.

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"Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash."

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This states that the cars are safe for only a period of time. An all computerized car is just asking for the worse when it gets older.

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Driverless cars aren't even really driverless, so what's the point?

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But so far, Google cars aren't truely driverless." The idea of a driverless car may put a person to ease, to where they aren't paying attention to the road ahead. The at ease person may become stressed when the car signals to take over. They might not even be ready to take over the wheel. This is a risky thing when coming to complicated traffic issues.

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These driverless cars also seem to be very expensive, something not the everyday person could afford.

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The car has even been know to be to costly without the price of the car itself. The article talks about the use of smart roads for the smart cars. "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." The car itself needs a lot of mechanics, such as Dubbed LIDAR, to make sure the vehicle can mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.

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The article talks a lot about the future of these driverless cars. But I do not think there will be such a future. With the concern of a person's life at risk, the driverless cars will intimidate many. The cost issue will also be an intimating factor. With manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan, many will not be able to afford it. Overall, the bad outweighs the good for this project. The driverless car is simply just not worth it.

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People are on the argument that NASA would hide an aliean artifact. NASA is trying to cover the possabilty of this artifact being accrute. That NASA would like to have this information to them selfs. The supporters of NASA beleve that NASA would come out with their discoverys. Both sides have a piont of but NASA starts their project to debunk these theorsist.

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NASA capters this photo of the red plant in the year 1976 and shows the photo to the public.

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This picture would become big" it became a pop icon and starred in Hollywood films,appeared in books, and ect. Then contriverse started on this could be and an ancient civilization."meanwhile,defenders of NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization. This wouldn't stop thorists, not in the slitest bit.

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After the surveyor srrived at the plant on September 1997 ,18 years after the program ended. NASA said"We felt this was important to taxpayers" explained Jim Garvin. On April 5th, 1998 when the Global Surveyor flew over cydonia. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture

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This picture was 10 times as better as the original and shows a natural land form.

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The picure showed better evidence that the theorist were wrong about an ancient cover up of anything

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Garvin said"So,if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egtptian-style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were. What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or meas. This debunks all explations of theorists every were. NASA has proven them selfs to not being the bad guys in a cover up.

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In conclision NASA releases the picture to the press in 1976. Therists say thats NASA is trying to cover up their findings of this civilization. NASA finds out about what people are saying about a cover up .18 years later they are going back to Mars to take another photo with abetter camra

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Everything is put to rest with the qulity of the new picture showing better textures and a clear image of this biome.

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So you know that face on mars right? You do, good do you thing that it was made by aliens?

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You do, well let me tell you something it was not made by aleins it was made by comets they hit mars and they made the face because aliens are not real they are fake, so they coundn't of made them.

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See the comets hit mars in the right place for it to make a face

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I think that it is stuiped that people still think that aliens are real they are not real!

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NASA knows that aliens are fake they just want people to think that they are real so they can get more money by spreding rummers that they found a UFO that has crashed in to the earth and the weriod crop cricles that are made into the corn fields, and they make money off of that crap, I think that is stuiped that they get money on that stuff and then there is other people that are trying to find money just to feed themselfs and there childern .

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The face in mars is just a hugh rock that got hit by some comets and the comets hit in just the right places and they made a face in that rock all the other syuff around it got hit to by a comet to so that is why places near the rock are caved in they got hit by a comet.

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So comets made the face in the moon not aliens because remeber aliens are not real they are fake so you can go tell other people this story and one day no one will ever think that aliens created the face in a mars rock.

Concluding Statement

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The Electoral College is a controversial topic in the US. This is the system used to elect the president of the United States, but most people (60% of Americans, according to source 1) believe that we shouldn't use this particular system and that we should go with the popular vote instead, while all others are strong in their stance that we should continue its use

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Under the Electoral College, it is entirely possible for a Presidential Candidate to win presidency, even with the majority of voters voting for the oposing candidate. We should discard the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote.

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The Electoral College is a system that allots a certain amount of electoral votes to each state. Each state is given 2 electoral votes plus another amount of votes which depends on that state's population. The amount of votes ranges from 3 to 55 (source 3). A candidate must recieve 270 out of 538 possible votes. The candidate the electoral votes of a state go to is decided by the majority vote of each individual state. In all states but Maine and Nebraska give a candidate the entirety of their votes if the majority of its citizen votes for them (source 1)

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Some people don't even bother voting due to the fact that their vote will not contribute to their favored candidate's election. This happens often when a democratic voter lives in a republican state, and vice versa (source 3)

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Many people stand by the Electoral College as the best course of action. They argue that the certainty of the winner is better, a candidate can't win the election due to regional favor, and this system unsures that there will still be a clear winner even when each candidate recieves the same percentage of votes.

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We began using the Electoral College in order to ensure that states with low populations weren't ignored by presidential campaigns

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However, it fails to do just that

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Presidential candidates focus their attention to swing states, in order to win their electoral votes. Candidates have little to no need to campaign in states that have a majority of one party, because their vote is either a lost cause or all but garunteed. If this system does not do the job that it was originally intended for, then why do we continue to use it?

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In conclusion, the electoral college is ineffective and outdated. we should no longer use this as a system of defining our president. Even though a winner is often more clear, there is still a possibility of a tie between candidates. People who support the Electoral College also argue that its a good thing due to swing states having more attention payed to them and therefore being more careful in their decision. However, this reasoning is flawed in that it assumes that citizens of a state are more likely to inform theirselves thouroughly simply because their vote holds more value, in a sense. Also, candidates would no longer pay special attention to swing states if the electoral college weren't in place so the votes of these citizens wouldn't be held above the rest. Increased value of votes is not a good thing, which this argument also assume. It is the best decision to abolish the Electoral College.

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I think that when picking the president that the people of the united states should be the ones to pick instead the electoral college makes the choices of who we get for president.

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When you vote along with everyong else i think that the majority of the votes should get that presedent instead of everyone voteing and then it getting sent to the electoral college and them getting to pick who they want wich i dont think is right i think that the people should pick who they want by the votes.

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The one with the most popular vote should win. When you vote for a presidential candidate you are actually voting for slate of electors. The electoral college consist of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. If you where running for president and you didnt have as many votes from the people as the ofter guy you can still win the election cause of the electoral college is the one that makes the decision to who we have as the president.

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It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not wing the national popular vote.

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This is a very rare thing to happen it has only ever happen twice it happen in 2000 and 1888.

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In columbia they are allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college

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In conclusion i think that it is not right that the electoral college gets to pick are president for us but i think that we should be able to pick are president by popular vote instead of haveing that electoral college.

Concluding Statement

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Arguements on whether the state senator should favor in keeping the Electoral College or change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States are occuring today.

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Each favor has its advantages and disadvantages, but we should favor in keeping the Electoral College

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because less disputes are likely to happen

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not voting will not effect the election.

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On the other hand, changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States has some advantages.

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In "Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", author Bradford Plumer claims "the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" because "candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning." This means that the candidates focus on the "tight races of the 'swing' states." To continue, Plumer also argues that changing to election by popular vote makes every vote count

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however, chaning to election by popular vote will cause mant disputes and it is not the right way to keep everyone satisfied with voting for a new president. Keeping the Electoral College is more realistic.

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In "Source 3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", author Richard A. Posner explains that the Electoral College "restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution." The Electoral College gives larger states more attention from presidential candidates as opposed to a smaller state. Posner continues the idea with "the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election." To break it down, voters who pay close attention to the campaign will be the most thoughtful voters and they will recieve the most attention from the candidates. This reduces the amount of disputes because the presidential candidates will decide on who to give the most attention to.

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In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", author Richard A. Posner states that "knowing [the voters'] vote has no effect [gives them] less incentitive to pay attention to the campaign." But, "voters in presidential electons are people who want to express political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide and election." This means thatchanging everyone to a single vote will have no effect, too because people will not put thought into who to vote, but they will just vote for whoever.

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To conclude, the state senator should favor in keeping the Electoral College rather than changing to election be popular vote for the president of the United States because less disputes will occur and not participating will not be effective.

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The Electoral college is a place were they elect the presidant of the united states and the congress choose if they put a vote in for that presidant and his people. The process is the selection of electors next the meeting of the electors and then where would they vote for the presidant and the vice presidant and the counting of the electoral votes by congress the elctoral college consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to vote for the presidant. The presidants election is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in November

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i think that why would you have the electoral college when you can just vote some other way insted of having this big thing just to elect the presidant and the vice presidant why can't you just have a regular meeting deciding if you are voting for that presidant and the vice presidant the electoral college to me makes no sense why would you have this big thing that makes no sense at all

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if you wanted to vote for the presidant then vote i dont get why you have to go through a big system just to vote i think its just easier just to vote a regular way and it takes so long and it also depeneds on what state you are in and how you have to vote in texas if you wanted to vote for a certain person you would have to vote for the slate of 34 or what the number of that person is like for example if you voted for Jhon Kerry you would have to vote for slate of 34 democratic electors it just depends on the state

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what if there was a tie the election it would be thrown into the house of representatives where the state delegations vote on the presidant and the vice presidant cause only each state casts one vote a single representatives from Wyoming representing 500,000 voters

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