tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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0e10f5c840cd	5526ABFE6934	Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.	Claim	Ineffective
cb6cfd260400	5526ABFE6934	Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. ( So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actuallt gone to Kennedy.)	Evidence	Effective
89309520234e	5526ABFE6934	Voting for the next President of the United States isn't something you would just want to rest in the hands of popular votes, you could end up with someone who doesnt even know what he is doing, or even desides he can't handle all of the responsibility of being the President. I feel very strong about my thoughts on the subject and believe that the Electoral College is still the way to go	Concluding Statement	Adequate
e2082c8b5751	552E2FEC5EFA	I think the United States of America should change or abolish the Electoral College	Position	Adequate
e8ceb4670129	552E2FEC5EFA	because sometimes it is not actually what the people want.	Claim	Adequate
d2970a954450	552E2FEC5EFA	In the 2000 Election Al Gore won the popular vote meaning more people in the USA wanted him at President than the winner. Should'nt we give the people what they want? A poll states thart over 60% of United States voters want to change or get rid of the Electoral College for this exact reason. The state sends people to represent the State not to represent the people. The state or people in office could totally defy whatever the people want in that state.	Evidence	Adequate
f83788f0bd24	552E2FEC5EFA	Lets say there is a tie. Then every state would have only 1 vote meaning the little state of Delaware would have as much say as the huge state of California. This example is the complete opposite of doing what the people want.This means the 35 million people have as much say as the 500,000 or sol in Delaware.	Evidence	Adequate
3269d899f1d5	552E2FEC5EFA	Our government bases off what the people want but the Electoral College dosen't always base off what the people more than what the state wants itself.	Claim	Ineffective
3d4ace0d4dcd	552E2FEC5EFA	Each party representing the state selects the "trusted" people for each state	Evidence	Adequate
339afe4a9d0b	552E2FEC5EFA	What if those people have a change of heart and they decide to change towards something the state dosen't want. (Which is very possible)	Claim	Adequate
cfe015594bce	55362AC14974	In my favor i do not think that the Electoral College should still be a process. Most people in america are not so pleased with how the Electoral College works. Manily because the Electoral College, in a way, get to pick if they want this person as the president or if they want this other person as the president. The people of America do not really have their own choice. Now, if we would go from having the Electoral College and change to have election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The people in America would be much happier.	Lead	Adequate
f66464546969	55362AC14974	I think that the Electoral College is not fair to American's. We all need to be able to select as who we want as the president of the United States.	Position	Effective
e60a531ce267	55362AC14974	"The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." Found in " What Is The Electoral College?" by the office of the Federal Register. As you see there are 538 elector. All 538 electors have to conversate about who should be the president. The Ellectoral College has complet control over that. People could want this person, but then here comesnthe Electoral College. The Ellectoral College can change who the people vote for. All of them have to deside what should be the outcome. Its never really the people choice. Its the Electoral College's choice.	Evidence	Adequate
2701902aa6cb	55362AC14974	Americans should be able to chose in which President they want for America.	Claim	Adequate
52a004a6d73b	55362AC14974	Some people want the Electoral College because they think that they solve all the problems	Counterclaim	Ineffective
b0ed0fd07b9e	55362AC14974	then there are the people who know their rights and want to be able to have full popularity vote of who their presedent is.	Rebuttal	Adequate
69ff3344ec45	55362AC14974	Most of the time te popularity vote is changed by the Electoral College, They chose what they think is so called "right". The Electoral College has a mind of its own	Claim	Adequate
69f37154e9d5	55362AC14974	People dont have their rights with the Electoral College. Thisprocess is not the way things should be. American's need to have or at least know their rights. That is why people in America are not so happy with what the Ellectoral College picks. The total vote for one person chould be 46% and a total vote for another person could be 42%. Ellectoral College has controle over that again. If the electors chose the person with the 42% they can bump up the percentage to be higher than the other one. That is not fair to the people of America.	Evidence	Adequate
1e5ac44c6feb	55362AC14974	We do not need the Electoral College. The people of America should have full popularity vote of who the peresident of the United States should be.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
d615041a652b	5553B03E281F	With all do respect i dont think having the electoral college is a proper way to nominate a president, or any senate for our country.	Position	Adequate
f97ca5bdec60	5553B03E281F	i strongly agree that we should have the idea of changing it to election by popularity.	Claim	Adequate
c263c989dcf3	5553B03E281F	to be known as a good person or a good citizen in your state or anywhere you have to be a great rolemodel & an excellent example to our world. From what i discovered in a passage electoral college is unfair. who are the electors ? and who picks out the electors ? it dependes on the state. voters sometimes vote for there electores but sometimes the voters get confused on who they voted on. somtimes the wrong candiate.	Evidence	Adequate
0b9e6c82b5e8	5553B03E281F	yes i do think that people who are running for president and senate should have the right to have a chance to become something big, but in my perspective i think that peoiple who is known and well common to there state will be a better outcome to whatever they run for	Claim	Ineffective
51aeda689dda	5553B03E281F	its like for an example, we live in the Florida state , we've know a woderful and handsome man that helps around our state and town of plant city, giving us more and devoring most of his time helping the enviroment and creating a diffrence. The man would have a greater chance of being nomitanted to being a president unlike the other man who only came out of his shell a year ago and have no idea what this man is capable of. Who will we have better trust on?	Evidence	Ineffective
fbdbb8bf07ce	5553B03E281F	When you win a contest or a bet we usally get what we accomplished for, when a elector wins , it takes all. well only the electoral collge works up on this. so please state senator, please change the process on how we are voting now, i think it would be alot more acceptable to vote on a preident on popularity. The united sates wants to be in the hands of a trusted person and someone the whole world can look upond.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
8e3983bd0bb4	558299F3D69E	I think that we shouldn't have to do community service if we don't have to time to do it.	Claim	Adequate
e4acad9974ed	558299F3D69E	Say if we play sports we wouldn't have the time of day to it and if you make us do it on weekends kids might not show up or some might become upset with you.	Evidence	Ineffective
078a1cee09fe	558299F3D69E	you should let the kids pick or if they do it give the some extra credit	Claim	Ineffective
7fd4a37d5d65	558299F3D69E	I play sports and I only have time to help on the weekends and sometimes i will be tried and many other kids who play sports might feel the same way as I do.	Evidence	Adequate
ed0eca885fda	558299F3D69E	But if you do pick to make kids do community service I will understand	Claim	Ineffective
d480babdd7e1	558299F3D69E	it helps kids learn to help out other people besides your self and some kids can really learn from just helping a couple of people out. But its up to you there are some positives and negatives with this choice.	Evidence	Adequate
a1fea481483f	558299F3D69E	I think we should take a vote to see how many kids would like to do community service and who wouldn't. If a lot of kids don't then let the kids who want to go out and help do it.	Claim	Adequate
64493b3fa70e	558299F3D69E	For the kids who don't maybe they will change their minds if their friends tell them how fun it is because they still are hanging out even if they are helping people out while they are doing it. I wouldn't know which to pick for a while i would ask my friends if they do it to give me some positives and negatives on it. Then i would try it and see if i like it and if i do i will keep going along with this act.	Evidence	Adequate
017a04385354	558299F3D69E	So this is a hard choice for you to pick but i would just go by the vote of your students. Plus maybe a lot of kids will choose to do community service and you wouldn't have to make everyone do it	Concluding Statement	Adequate
645c6e774584	558299F3D69E	I think i would vote to do community service	Position	Adequate
97338a900d19	55D932D37D19	With the elctoral college vote most of people are not getting what they prefer. For the the electoral college vote, voters vote fro not the president, but for a not slate of electors.	Lead	Adequate
b910b2da3b6b	55D932D37D19	With the popular vote people are actually getting what they voted for.	Position	Adequate
89a165786265	55D932D37D19	The best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster college.	Claim	Adequate
7c42ac7d8584	55D932D37D19	Consider that state legislatures are techanically responsible for picking electors and that those electors that were voted for couls always defy the will of the people. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.	Evidence	Adequate
ec345a7dad92	55D932D37D19	Some mat argue that they like the electoral vote but majority of the people would rather have the popular vote.	Claim	Adequate
7decf405eae2	55D932D37D19	It does not make any sense to me how the president with the votes does not win the presidential election. The electoral college is unfair for all voters that vote. When you think of a vote and how it works you would think by the most one with the most votes wins cause that pretty much means that most of the people would rather have the most wins over the win that had less votes but more electoral votes.	Evidence	Ineffective
095f5a5f2a7a	55D932D37D19	The electoral college election consist of the 538 electors. All you have to do is win most of those votes and you win the election. It is pretty unfair for the rest of the people that are votting for presidential election.	Claim	Adequate
25dc605cbdc2	55D932D37D19	The majority of the 270 electoral vots is required to elect the president. When you vote for the president you are also voting for your candidate and the candidate's electors. Electors are people that are not holding public office. To be elector the state chooses and sometimes state conventions, state party's central committee, and the presidential candidate themsleves.	Evidence	Adequate
00421681bce9	55D932D37D19	They should not really even call it the presidential election casue when you vote for presidential candidate you are actually voting for slate electors.	Claim	Adequate
592e2dabd207	55D932D37D19	Each party selects a slte of electors trusted to vote for the party's nminee and represent them. In 2000 Gore the popular votes which means most people would have rather had him then bush but bush won the electional because the electoral votes. There is really not a reason why the people should vote because either way the electors are choosing the preisdent. The people are showing who they want but really does not matter that much.	Evidence	Adequate
bd7bcc670598	55D932D37D19	The only reason why people vote for the poplar vote because the if there is tie between the electoral vote it goes to the popularity vote.	Evidence	Ineffective
6437fc466242	55D932D37D19	In conclusion, I think we should change the electoral vote to the popular vote because the majority of the voters should get what they voted. I think it is unfair for all the people that vote and does not really do anything unless there is tie in the electoral vote. The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational to all the people.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
ca142dced449	563F7AD6C619	"Do you want to be apart of a Electoral College" Electoral colleges. Do you know what this means? An electoral college is a process of multiple facts. Not a place. As everyone thinks Electoral College sounds decieving because the word "college" in the name but apparentley thats not true. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President and votes by the people of America. Dear Senator, this is where I begin rambling on and on about how the electoral college is wonderful and great. But I am just going to let you in to alittle bit of knowledge behind the thinking, before you get your fingers in a knot.	Lead	Effective
858a9014fced	563F7AD6C619	I propose that we shall keep the Electoral college in order to keep things fair amoung the country.	Position	Adequate
beb80e58e4cc	563F7AD6C619	The Electoral college is all high and mighty and is a process that consists of the selection of the electors. During the meeting of the electors, they discuss the presidents and vice presidents that are trying out for there 'role' in society. They also align the counting of the electoral votes by the Congress men. If you did not know Senator the Electoral College or as we call it "EC" consists of 538 electors in the so called 'pole'. A majority of those electors are 270 votes that are required to elect the President. There is one allotment for each member of the House of Representatives adding an extra 2 for your senators, like you!	Evidence	Ineffective
76c44713f9ed	563F7AD6C619	As you can see the "EC" has alot to offer and your even included. Why would you want to get rid of something that your apart of	Claim	Adequate
064ff0553008	563F7AD6C619	Wait a second you don't know the rest of the story do you. Well now I understand why you wouldn't want them to just be another organization. Am I Right?	Evidence	Ineffective
3fbe4f127f78	563F7AD6C619	Each canidate running for the high quality name known as "The Presdident" in your state has his or hers own group of electors. They are usually chosen by the political party, but the state laws vary from time to time. Fun Fact for Mr. Senator- did you know this is in the 23rd Amendment? Oh silly me your the senator you should know this! Continuing on with our little debate here there is an important part of the Electoral colleges that you must know. Every tuesday after the first monday in November is when these elections occur.	Evidence	Adequate
ccccb9f8494b	563F7AD6C619	if you didn't think that the citizens have a say in this at all, well you are mistaken!	Counterclaim	Adequate
6d20a232c71c	563F7AD6C619	The citizens help choose the your states electors because when you vote for President your actually voting for your canidates electors.	Evidence	Adequate
7a8e451bfb1b	563F7AD6C619	So they do have a say in this partake.	Rebuttal	Adequate
7e95c3c0abe4	563F7AD6C619	"Winner Take All" sound familiar to you. Maybe not but I am going to explain it anyway. The Winner Takes All System awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. Except for the unlucky ones like Maine, and Nebraska they have something called the "Proportional Representation". All said and done the "certificate of Ascertainment" is introduced after the elction has partaken in. This lists all of the canidates who ran for President in your state choosen along with the names of there "side kick" the electors. This shows who will be in your country running for president and elector for the next 4 years until the next election.	Evidence	Ineffective
b5b6ca1b467a	563F7AD6C619	Of course the "EC" has some problems	Counterclaim	Adequate
70ec00f240e3	563F7AD6C619	Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and the US Chamber of Commerce want to abolish the "EC"! They are not alone on this one.	Evidence	Adequate
29c23524246d	563F7AD6C619	Under the "EC" voters vote for something other than the president but for the slate of electors, who then turn over andelect who "THEY" want to be the president.	Counterclaim	Effective
c92a6820e289	563F7AD6C619	This is why we have the voting we have today so each person can vote on who they want and still be treated the same.	Rebuttal	Adequate
fbfca4317bba	563F7AD6C619	Allowing the people to vote for whoever they want to is not a good idea. It can lead to bigger problems and issues. Voting for yourself can be very, very stressful. Adding on top of more strees. Of course its easier this way but your electing who is going to be the "President". Someone who controlls your country, tells YOU what to do, and makes new laws. It shouldn't be as easy as writting on a piece of paper who you want to be president. There should be some type of way to make it alittle more precise. This is why there is the Electoral College. All you have to do is get with someone you trust and vote for them to be apart of the canidates electors. Then all they have to do is vote for who they want to be president and see what happens. Its just as easy as what we have now but alittle bit more neat/clean. I Know I am spilling alot of information onto you about the "EC". And the advantages and disadvantages of having it. But I ask you to read this letter and think about what role YOU play in this election.	Concluding Statement	Effective
4665b8aafd78	5658A5617BA5	I think students should be required to take a position on whether students should be required to perform community service	Position	Ineffective
08aab2fc1f22	5658A5617BA5	they can learn more better education by just being apart of something achieving in life as in doing their school work, getting good grades, being dedicated and representable to the respect in the school policy	Claim	Ineffective
24488c0422f2	5658A5617BA5	i also think students should really take a thoughtful moment about rather the community service activity should or would waste their quality time at home just wasting a lot of time ands not really learning about anything important.	Claim	Adequate
cff39395efba	5658A5617BA5	i think that it is right to establish that all kids should be required in cleaning up all of the junk that has been abandoned our important community	Claim	Adequate
ec39e629904d	5658A5617BA5	i also believe that students should do the right thing and pick up of what they have done as in throwing trash on the ground and thinking it is cool,	Claim	Adequate
88ec6673c2e7	5658A5617BA5	i don't believe deep down inside that kids and adults should trash and liter up our community like this. and i truly possibly think that kids should think about keeping our environment clean and be supportive.	Evidence	Adequate
7b51769a589c	5662D458F65C	I am an 8th grade student at your school. I have heard that u have decided to ask students at our school to write a letter concerning if u think that we should worry about community service.	Lead	Adequate
eded865267ef	5662D458F65C	I think that YES our school needs to do community services	Position	Effective
cfdfdd743e9b	5662D458F65C	Community service helps our environment.	Claim	Effective
8183cdf37ed6	5662D458F65C	Also if u noticed the main word in community service is community. By doing community services you help your community by doing service, by making it better.	Claim	Effective
0eab3e2cd684	5662D458F65C	Community service can mean a lot of things like picking up litter, helping people, doing work, tutoring people your also suppose to do everything that would in any way help it.	Evidence	Effective
3bd60d0328dc	5662D458F65C	Also by our school doing community service we could be well known around our state by taking these peaceful actions. We might even be on the news or newspaper.	Claim	Adequate
238fb5ce5090	5662D458F65C	By doing this action we might get sponsors or people might donate money to because we worked so hard by helping it and taking care of it the community might give back. Also I think if we do this more people will want to come to our school to enroll or interview us	Evidence	Effective
a52ee56c9561	5662D458F65C	All I am saying to you is that in my opinion we should always help our environment healthy by doing this.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
7b0f8e3fc582	5690C4B1DE7E	As modern technology progresses, more and more of our everyday activities are shifting from manual and on-paper activities to automated online functions. A key example of this in modern society is something as normal as email. In the past, people communicated via letters which had to be mailed to each other, taking weeks to deliver; however, the modern day email technology allows us to deliver messages to others in seconds. As we progress further and further into the future, more and more of these essential daily activities transfers from manual/ in person contact, to automated and online activities. The next major milestone of this online revolution is to make digital and online education and teaching more wide scale so that every student and school can benefit. Many schools have began to offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home by way of online or video conferencing.	Lead	Effective
2c1e47a3e611	5690C4B1DE7E	Student's will greatly benefit from being able to attend classes from home	Position	Adequate
1be2dfc39062	5690C4B1DE7E	it allows students who are not comfortable or focused at school to work diligently from an undisturbed and comfortable situation from their homes	Claim	Effective
c4b603beac81	5690C4B1DE7E	it allows for more feasible scheduling situations	Claim	Adequate
97ad3843f14a	5690C4B1DE7E	allows students to be more organized thus resulting in better quality work.	Claim	Effective
ae1f314d4431	5690C4B1DE7E	Student's will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because it allows students who are not comfortable or focused at school to work diligently from an undisturbed and comfortable situation at their homes.	Claim	Effective
d43e5cf267d6	5690C4B1DE7E	A person's workplace means so much to their work efficiency and quality. Many people often find this comfortable and safe space within the constraints of their own homes. Working from home brings in a couple essential factors, that a lot of times are hard to find at schools which range from comfort, focus, and familiarity. One basic aspect that is often pointed to when talking about comfort at school versus comfort at home is the amount of noise pollution. While at school, you are often surrounded by twenty five to thirty other students who are all chatting and creating noise pollution in your work environment. However, while working at home, there is rarely any noise pollution because of the vastly lesser amount of people in your work environment. This more focused and comfortable work environment can allow students to strive and gain success rather then be out of concentration and disturbed at a school.	Evidence	Effective
a97f9dfcd478	5690C4B1DE7E	Student's will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because it allows students to follow and create a more feasible and flexible schedule.	Claim	Adequate
47542870067a	5690C4B1DE7E	Many students in high school participate in a variety of after-school activities and hobbies; however, since school takes away so much of the normal student's day including commute to and from school, it is often hard to schedule and plan all these essential activities and hobbies. Personally, I partake in a major robotics and STEM club known as FTC. At FTC we retain extremely knowledgeful information about creating, programming, and experimenting robotic designs which we compete at competitions using. One of my major struggles is balancing school and FTC because I have to go to school for seven to eight hours and then find space for time to commit to FTC as well as finish my studying and homework. Allowing students like myself to attend classes from home through online or video conferences would be extremely beneficial to the way I schedule my everyday activities because digital schooling would cut out essential time-consuming factors such as commute time and block switching thus providing me with more time to dedicate to my hobbies and extra-curricular activities.	Evidence	Effective
2c8b982c5445	5690C4B1DE7E	Student's will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because it allows students to be much more organized through digital tools and resources.	Claim	Effective
fd86a3df4fe3	5690C4B1DE7E	Attending school in person often means you will receive a tremendous amount of hard-copy and paper handouts. However, digital schooling and online schooling often uses digital copies of these handouts and online resources such as Google classroom and Google drive. The various resources allow the everyday student to be exponentially more organized as rather then creating countless physical folders and carrying around hundreds of papers, you can simply have access to everything you need from the touch of your phone screen. Digital education also allows students who have trouble asking their teachers questions in person while in front of many other students to articulate themselves personally to their teachers without being seen by their classmates through several available functions that come available with digital educating.	Evidence	Effective
22546bc36e20	5690C4B1DE7E	Online education from home and teaching through video conferences and other online tools can greatly advance teaching and education as it allows students to learn in a comfortable environment, allows students to maintain feasible and flexible schedules, and allows students to have a much more organized education. Currently, we are heading in a path were all aspects of our daily life are being digitized and improved through online functions. Our education and learning is only the next aspect to make that leap to the future!	Concluding Statement	Effective
acb5b6b8a0d4	5694D233EAF6	The Electoral College basically serves as a filter for the votes of every individual American citizen. Every single vote that comes from citizens is a vote for somebody else who will be voting for the president, not the candidates themselves	Lead	Effective
8b7bb0a335ff	5694D233EAF6	The Electoral College is flawed to the point where the most logical way to vote would be to base presidental elections off of popular votes.	Position	Effective
ef7c05dafb89	5694D233EAF6	The Electoral College encourages the presidents who are running for office to avoid campaigning towards states with a smaller amount of electoral voters	Claim	Effective
6c93b6e3f2ec	5694D233EAF6	If the president is determined by the most electoral votes, it would make sense that the president would campaign towards larger states with more electoral voters such as California, Texas, and Florida. Why would they spend time trying to appeal to some of the smaller states? This can lead to some states not even seeing the candidate. Infact, during the 2000 election, voters in the 25 largest media markets did not witness any campaign advertising	Evidence	Effective
fe72289a0a11	5694D233EAF6	The Electoral College's process of voting suppresses the voice of every citizen.	Claim	Effective
0c6e3ab748db	5694D233EAF6	The balance between smaller and larger states comes into play here as well. Take Florida for example, a state with 29 total electoral votes. If the mass majority of Florida votes for a certain set of electors, the minority votes for the other ones would not matter at all, as the electors speaking for that certain fraction of the population would not elected. With popular voting, each and every vote would matter towards electing a president. The number of minority votes would directly apply to the outcome of the president.	Evidence	Effective
ecbef6a0751f	5694D233EAF6	The Electoral College and the electors should not be the voice of the country. The voice of the people should be heard, especially when it comes to presidental elections. Popular voting is the most fair and rational method of voting. The Electoral College is best off forgotten as a voting system.	Concluding Statement	Effective
d68c4d6e3d42	569CBA2B3B8F	i'm writing to you about the issues of the electoral voting process.	Lead	Ineffective
527c34d8bef9	569CBA2B3B8F	Im in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States for a couple of reasons	Position	Adequate
0f08473fe90d	569CBA2B3B8F	First, I will know who I am voting for instead of thinking I am voting for the person I wanna vote for	Claim	Adequate
eabe6d6a965f	569CBA2B3B8F	second the votes will be fair	Claim	Adequate
504e5ae47421	569CBA2B3B8F	To start off with, If we keep the electoral voting process then we will continue not knowing who we are voting for	Claim	Adequate

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Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.

Claim

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Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. ( So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actuallt gone to Kennedy.)

Evidence

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Voting for the next President of the United States isn't something you would just want to rest in the hands of popular votes, you could end up with someone who doesnt even know what he is doing, or even desides he can't handle all of the responsibility of being the President. I feel very strong about my thoughts on the subject and believe that the Electoral College is still the way to go

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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I think the United States of America should change or abolish the Electoral College

Position

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because sometimes it is not actually what the people want.

Claim

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In the 2000 Election Al Gore won the popular vote meaning more people in the USA wanted him at President than the winner. Should'nt we give the people what they want? A poll states thart over 60% of United States voters want to change or get rid of the Electoral College for this exact reason. The state sends people to represent the State not to represent the people. The state or people in office could totally defy whatever the people want in that state.

Evidence

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Lets say there is a tie. Then every state would have only 1 vote meaning the little state of Delaware would have as much say as the huge state of California. This example is the complete opposite of doing what the people want.This means the 35 million people have as much say as the 500,000 or sol in Delaware.

Evidence

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Our government bases off what the people want but the Electoral College dosen't always base off what the people more than what the state wants itself.

Claim

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Each party representing the state selects the "trusted" people for each state

Evidence

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What if those people have a change of heart and they decide to change towards something the state dosen't want. (Which is very possible)

Claim

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In my favor i do not think that the Electoral College should still be a process. Most people in america are not so pleased with how the Electoral College works. Manily because the Electoral College, in a way, get to pick if they want this person as the president or if they want this other person as the president. The people of America do not really have their own choice. Now, if we would go from having the Electoral College and change to have election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The people in America would be much happier.

Lead

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I think that the Electoral College is not fair to American's. We all need to be able to select as who we want as the president of the United States.

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"The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." Found in " What Is The Electoral College?" by the office of the Federal Register. As you see there are 538 elector. All 538 electors have to conversate about who should be the president. The Ellectoral College has complet control over that. People could want this person, but then here comesnthe Electoral College. The Ellectoral College can change who the people vote for. All of them have to deside what should be the outcome. Its never really the people choice. Its the Electoral College's choice.

Evidence

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Americans should be able to chose in which President they want for America.

Claim

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Some people want the Electoral College because they think that they solve all the problems

Counterclaim

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then there are the people who know their rights and want to be able to have full popularity vote of who their presedent is.

Rebuttal

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Most of the time te popularity vote is changed by the Electoral College, They chose what they think is so called "right". The Electoral College has a mind of its own

Claim

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People dont have their rights with the Electoral College. Thisprocess is not the way things should be. American's need to have or at least know their rights. That is why people in America are not so happy with what the Ellectoral College picks. The total vote for one person chould be 46% and a total vote for another person could be 42%. Ellectoral College has controle over that again. If the electors chose the person with the 42% they can bump up the percentage to be higher than the other one. That is not fair to the people of America.

Evidence

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We do not need the Electoral College. The people of America should have full popularity vote of who the peresident of the United States should be.

Concluding Statement

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With all do respect i dont think having the electoral college is a proper way to nominate a president, or any senate for our country.

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i strongly agree that we should have the idea of changing it to election by popularity.

Claim

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to be known as a good person or a good citizen in your state or anywhere you have to be a great rolemodel & an excellent example to our world. From what i discovered in a passage electoral college is unfair. who are the electors ? and who picks out the electors ? it dependes on the state. voters sometimes vote for there electores but sometimes the voters get confused on who they voted on. somtimes the wrong candiate.

Evidence

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yes i do think that people who are running for president and senate should have the right to have a chance to become something big, but in my perspective i think that peoiple who is known and well common to there state will be a better outcome to whatever they run for

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its like for an example, we live in the Florida state , we've know a woderful and handsome man that helps around our state and town of plant city, giving us more and devoring most of his time helping the enviroment and creating a diffrence. The man would have a greater chance of being nomitanted to being a president unlike the other man who only came out of his shell a year ago and have no idea what this man is capable of. Who will we have better trust on?

Evidence

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When you win a contest or a bet we usally get what we accomplished for, when a elector wins , it takes all. well only the electoral collge works up on this. so please state senator, please change the process on how we are voting now, i think it would be alot more acceptable to vote on a preident on popularity. The united sates wants to be in the hands of a trusted person and someone the whole world can look upond.

Concluding Statement

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I think that we shouldn't have to do community service if we don't have to time to do it.

Claim

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Say if we play sports we wouldn't have the time of day to it and if you make us do it on weekends kids might not show up or some might become upset with you.

Evidence

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you should let the kids pick or if they do it give the some extra credit

Claim

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I play sports and I only have time to help on the weekends and sometimes i will be tried and many other kids who play sports might feel the same way as I do.

Evidence

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But if you do pick to make kids do community service I will understand

Claim

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it helps kids learn to help out other people besides your self and some kids can really learn from just helping a couple of people out. But its up to you there are some positives and negatives with this choice.

Evidence

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I think we should take a vote to see how many kids would like to do community service and who wouldn't. If a lot of kids don't then let the kids who want to go out and help do it.

Claim

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For the kids who don't maybe they will change their minds if their friends tell them how fun it is because they still are hanging out even if they are helping people out while they are doing it. I wouldn't know which to pick for a while i would ask my friends if they do it to give me some positives and negatives on it. Then i would try it and see if i like it and if i do i will keep going along with this act.

Evidence

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So this is a hard choice for you to pick but i would just go by the vote of your students. Plus maybe a lot of kids will choose to do community service and you wouldn't have to make everyone do it

Concluding Statement

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I think i would vote to do community service

Position

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With the elctoral college vote most of people are not getting what they prefer. For the the electoral college vote, voters vote fro not the president, but for a not slate of electors.

Lead

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With the popular vote people are actually getting what they voted for.

Position

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The best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster college.

Claim

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Consider that state legislatures are techanically responsible for picking electors and that those electors that were voted for couls always defy the will of the people. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.

Evidence

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Some mat argue that they like the electoral vote but majority of the people would rather have the popular vote.

Claim

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It does not make any sense to me how the president with the votes does not win the presidential election. The electoral college is unfair for all voters that vote. When you think of a vote and how it works you would think by the most one with the most votes wins cause that pretty much means that most of the people would rather have the most wins over the win that had less votes but more electoral votes.

Evidence

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The electoral college election consist of the 538 electors. All you have to do is win most of those votes and you win the election. It is pretty unfair for the rest of the people that are votting for presidential election.

Claim

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The majority of the 270 electoral vots is required to elect the president. When you vote for the president you are also voting for your candidate and the candidate's electors. Electors are people that are not holding public office. To be elector the state chooses and sometimes state conventions, state party's central committee, and the presidential candidate themsleves.

Evidence

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They should not really even call it the presidential election casue when you vote for presidential candidate you are actually voting for slate electors.

Claim

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Each party selects a slte of electors trusted to vote for the party's nminee and represent them. In 2000 Gore the popular votes which means most people would have rather had him then bush but bush won the electional because the electoral votes. There is really not a reason why the people should vote because either way the electors are choosing the preisdent. The people are showing who they want but really does not matter that much.

Evidence

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The only reason why people vote for the poplar vote because the if there is tie between the electoral vote it goes to the popularity vote.

Evidence

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In conclusion, I think we should change the electoral vote to the popular vote because the majority of the voters should get what they voted. I think it is unfair for all the people that vote and does not really do anything unless there is tie in the electoral vote. The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational to all the people.

Concluding Statement

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"Do you want to be apart of a Electoral College" Electoral colleges. Do you know what this means? An electoral college is a process of multiple facts. Not a place. As everyone thinks Electoral College sounds decieving because the word "college" in the name but apparentley thats not true. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President and votes by the people of America. Dear Senator, this is where I begin rambling on and on about how the electoral college is wonderful and great. But I am just going to let you in to alittle bit of knowledge behind the thinking, before you get your fingers in a knot.

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I propose that we shall keep the Electoral college in order to keep things fair amoung the country.

Position

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The Electoral college is all high and mighty and is a process that consists of the selection of the electors. During the meeting of the electors, they discuss the presidents and vice presidents that are trying out for there 'role' in society. They also align the counting of the electoral votes by the Congress men. If you did not know Senator the Electoral College or as we call it "EC" consists of 538 electors in the so called 'pole'. A majority of those electors are 270 votes that are required to elect the President. There is one allotment for each member of the House of Representatives adding an extra 2 for your senators, like you!

Evidence

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As you can see the "EC" has alot to offer and your even included. Why would you want to get rid of something that your apart of

Claim

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Wait a second you don't know the rest of the story do you. Well now I understand why you wouldn't want them to just be another organization. Am I Right?

Evidence

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Each canidate running for the high quality name known as "The Presdident" in your state has his or hers own group of electors. They are usually chosen by the political party, but the state laws vary from time to time. Fun Fact for Mr. Senator- did you know this is in the 23rd Amendment? Oh silly me your the senator you should know this! Continuing on with our little debate here there is an important part of the Electoral colleges that you must know. Every tuesday after the first monday in November is when these elections occur.

Evidence

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if you didn't think that the citizens have a say in this at all, well you are mistaken!

Counterclaim

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The citizens help choose the your states electors because when you vote for President your actually voting for your canidates electors.

Evidence

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So they do have a say in this partake.

Rebuttal

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"Winner Take All" sound familiar to you. Maybe not but I am going to explain it anyway. The Winner Takes All System awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. Except for the unlucky ones like Maine, and Nebraska they have something called the "Proportional Representation". All said and done the "certificate of Ascertainment" is introduced after the elction has partaken in. This lists all of the canidates who ran for President in your state choosen along with the names of there "side kick" the electors. This shows who will be in your country running for president and elector for the next 4 years until the next election.

Evidence

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Of course the "EC" has some problems

Counterclaim

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Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and the US Chamber of Commerce want to abolish the "EC"! They are not alone on this one.

Evidence

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Under the "EC" voters vote for something other than the president but for the slate of electors, who then turn over andelect who "THEY" want to be the president.

Counterclaim

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This is why we have the voting we have today so each person can vote on who they want and still be treated the same.

Rebuttal

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Allowing the people to vote for whoever they want to is not a good idea. It can lead to bigger problems and issues. Voting for yourself can be very, very stressful. Adding on top of more strees. Of course its easier this way but your electing who is going to be the "President". Someone who controlls your country, tells YOU what to do, and makes new laws. It shouldn't be as easy as writting on a piece of paper who you want to be president. There should be some type of way to make it alittle more precise. This is why there is the Electoral College. All you have to do is get with someone you trust and vote for them to be apart of the canidates electors. Then all they have to do is vote for who they want to be president and see what happens. Its just as easy as what we have now but alittle bit more neat/clean. I Know I am spilling alot of information onto you about the "EC". And the advantages and disadvantages of having it. But I ask you to read this letter and think about what role YOU play in this election.

Concluding Statement

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I think students should be required to take a position on whether students should be required to perform community service

Position

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they can learn more better education by just being apart of something achieving in life as in doing their school work, getting good grades, being dedicated and representable to the respect in the school policy

Claim

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i also think students should really take a thoughtful moment about rather the community service activity should or would waste their quality time at home just wasting a lot of time ands not really learning about anything important.

Claim

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i think that it is right to establish that all kids should be required in cleaning up all of the junk that has been abandoned our important community

Claim

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i also believe that students should do the right thing and pick up of what they have done as in throwing trash on the ground and thinking it is cool,

Claim

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i don't believe deep down inside that kids and adults should trash and liter up our community like this. and i truly possibly think that kids should think about keeping our environment clean and be supportive.

Evidence

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I am an 8th grade student at your school. I have heard that u have decided to ask students at our school to write a letter concerning if u think that we should worry about community service.

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I think that YES our school needs to do community services

Position

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Community service helps our environment.

Claim

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Also if u noticed the main word in community service is community. By doing community services you help your community by doing service, by making it better.

Claim

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Community service can mean a lot of things like picking up litter, helping people, doing work, tutoring people your also suppose to do everything that would in any way help it.

Evidence

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Also by our school doing community service we could be well known around our state by taking these peaceful actions. We might even be on the news or newspaper.

Claim

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By doing this action we might get sponsors or people might donate money to because we worked so hard by helping it and taking care of it the community might give back. Also I think if we do this more people will want to come to our school to enroll or interview us

Evidence

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All I am saying to you is that in my opinion we should always help our environment healthy by doing this.

Concluding Statement

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As modern technology progresses, more and more of our everyday activities are shifting from manual and on-paper activities to automated online functions. A key example of this in modern society is something as normal as email. In the past, people communicated via letters which had to be mailed to each other, taking weeks to deliver; however, the modern day email technology allows us to deliver messages to others in seconds. As we progress further and further into the future, more and more of these essential daily activities transfers from manual/ in person contact, to automated and online activities. The next major milestone of this online revolution is to make digital and online education and teaching more wide scale so that every student and school can benefit. Many schools have began to offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home by way of online or video conferencing.

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Student's will greatly benefit from being able to attend classes from home

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it allows students who are not comfortable or focused at school to work diligently from an undisturbed and comfortable situation from their homes

Claim

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it allows for more feasible scheduling situations

Claim

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allows students to be more organized thus resulting in better quality work.

Claim

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Student's will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because it allows students who are not comfortable or focused at school to work diligently from an undisturbed and comfortable situation at their homes.

Claim

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A person's workplace means so much to their work efficiency and quality. Many people often find this comfortable and safe space within the constraints of their own homes. Working from home brings in a couple essential factors, that a lot of times are hard to find at schools which range from comfort, focus, and familiarity. One basic aspect that is often pointed to when talking about comfort at school versus comfort at home is the amount of noise pollution. While at school, you are often surrounded by twenty five to thirty other students who are all chatting and creating noise pollution in your work environment. However, while working at home, there is rarely any noise pollution because of the vastly lesser amount of people in your work environment. This more focused and comfortable work environment can allow students to strive and gain success rather then be out of concentration and disturbed at a school.

Evidence

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Student's will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because it allows students to follow and create a more feasible and flexible schedule.

Claim

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Many students in high school participate in a variety of after-school activities and hobbies; however, since school takes away so much of the normal student's day including commute to and from school, it is often hard to schedule and plan all these essential activities and hobbies. Personally, I partake in a major robotics and STEM club known as FTC. At FTC we retain extremely knowledgeful information about creating, programming, and experimenting robotic designs which we compete at competitions using. One of my major struggles is balancing school and FTC because I have to go to school for seven to eight hours and then find space for time to commit to FTC as well as finish my studying and homework. Allowing students like myself to attend classes from home through online or video conferences would be extremely beneficial to the way I schedule my everyday activities because digital schooling would cut out essential time-consuming factors such as commute time and block switching thus providing me with more time to dedicate to my hobbies and extra-curricular activities.

Evidence

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Student's will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because it allows students to be much more organized through digital tools and resources.

Claim

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Attending school in person often means you will receive a tremendous amount of hard-copy and paper handouts. However, digital schooling and online schooling often uses digital copies of these handouts and online resources such as Google classroom and Google drive. The various resources allow the everyday student to be exponentially more organized as rather then creating countless physical folders and carrying around hundreds of papers, you can simply have access to everything you need from the touch of your phone screen. Digital education also allows students who have trouble asking their teachers questions in person while in front of many other students to articulate themselves personally to their teachers without being seen by their classmates through several available functions that come available with digital educating.

Evidence

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Online education from home and teaching through video conferences and other online tools can greatly advance teaching and education as it allows students to learn in a comfortable environment, allows students to maintain feasible and flexible schedules, and allows students to have a much more organized education. Currently, we are heading in a path were all aspects of our daily life are being digitized and improved through online functions. Our education and learning is only the next aspect to make that leap to the future!

Concluding Statement

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The Electoral College basically serves as a filter for the votes of every individual American citizen. Every single vote that comes from citizens is a vote for somebody else who will be voting for the president, not the candidates themselves

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The Electoral College is flawed to the point where the most logical way to vote would be to base presidental elections off of popular votes.

Position

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The Electoral College encourages the presidents who are running for office to avoid campaigning towards states with a smaller amount of electoral voters

Claim

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If the president is determined by the most electoral votes, it would make sense that the president would campaign towards larger states with more electoral voters such as California, Texas, and Florida. Why would they spend time trying to appeal to some of the smaller states? This can lead to some states not even seeing the candidate. Infact, during the 2000 election, voters in the 25 largest media markets did not witness any campaign advertising

Evidence

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The Electoral College's process of voting suppresses the voice of every citizen.

Claim

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The balance between smaller and larger states comes into play here as well. Take Florida for example, a state with 29 total electoral votes. If the mass majority of Florida votes for a certain set of electors, the minority votes for the other ones would not matter at all, as the electors speaking for that certain fraction of the population would not elected. With popular voting, each and every vote would matter towards electing a president. The number of minority votes would directly apply to the outcome of the president.

Evidence

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The Electoral College and the electors should not be the voice of the country. The voice of the people should be heard, especially when it comes to presidental elections. Popular voting is the most fair and rational method of voting. The Electoral College is best off forgotten as a voting system.

Concluding Statement

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i'm writing to you about the issues of the electoral voting process.

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Im in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States for a couple of reasons

Position

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First, I will know who I am voting for instead of thinking I am voting for the person I wanna vote for

Claim

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second the votes will be fair

Claim

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To start off with, If we keep the electoral voting process then we will continue not knowing who we are voting for

Claim

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