tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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50b851dde632	5EB7A0B134B4	because they can not be on their telephone	Claim	Adequate
3589d20c8b03	5EB7A0B134B4	not due what they are spouse to due.	Claim	Ineffective
c937af5a7152	5EB7A0B134B4	I want to play whit my brothers go out side play soccer and i say just for a little I am to playing with then but a get distracted and i for got the i have to do homework or study for a test. Some time I get distracted by seeing my brother playing video even went they is a lot of noise i get distracted because i want to what is happening or what is going on. I remember one day the I have to finish a test review at home because I do not have time to do it at school I do not finish because I get distracted by brothers. They were making a lot of noise and i could no concentrate because of then. My brothers are the same way as me they can get distracted fully easy and not pay attention on what they doing maybe they star by doing they homework but they do no finish because they get distracted by the TV or the video game.	Evidence	Adequate
52ab94801cd6	5EB7A0B134B4	Second, they can use the telephone some time I get a lot distracted whit my telephone because I away want to be in the telephone.	Claim	Adequate
a92a705e674e	5EB7A0B134B4	Went i home I just want to be in my telephone and i do not do my homework. I get fully distracted because I want to text whit my friends or playing video games in my telephone and not Du what i suppose to to do. Went I am at home I have all I want my bed my telephone the TV the I forgot the I have to how or study for a quiz or test. Only because I at home and I have all i need some time i do not want to do anything I get distracted fully easy and more if I have my telephone in front of me because i want to leasing to music or video chat my friend and talk and pay attention on what I suppose to due. Some time my mom tell that I have to stuff in the house so I have to do it even if I am doing homework or studying I have to what she say and then a can kip doing what i was doing. If I have my telephone whit me the only thing i what to do is be in the telephone because it is a easy way to get distracted and not due what you suppose to due.	Evidence	Adequate
7ddb61418834	5EB7A0B134B4	Some people my say that if students have home school it will be good because some students can get bully at school and they do not want to go back.	Counterclaim	Adequate
dd7a097eca59	5EB7A0B134B4	The is say for then because some the students do not ride the bus the parent have to take then to school and the take a lot of time some time because they have to wait. Even they are going late for work and they do not have tame to take then to school. They may say the if they have school at home they do not have to do all the work by taking then to school. some time a lot of kids get bully at school and it more easy for then do do it by home because they do not have to deal with at school they do to have to be worry what would happen to then the net they or what does people are going to do whit then, But I chose to not have school at because some people can get distracted I not saying the all people have the problem I am just saying the i have the problem they my not have. But I do not like have home school because i want to see my friend graduate whit then have fun some time go to party and now more people have more experience.	Evidence	Adequate
f8f6d10ff376	5EB7A0B134B4	In solution, people can do what is best for you if you like do school by home because you do not like people or have personal problem or have i disability that you go it no one is going to say anything. But some time people want to have friends have fun because you are a person the like to be around people that good to. the only thing i am saying chose what is best for you not what is best for other people or what other people think. Make you own decision be proud of you no matter what.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
9668d515d115	5F1044A9C6A6	I think you should change the election by popular vote for the presiden of the united states because then the people would choose who they like better and it would easyer to vote .	Position	Adequate
4d903a9e3a85	5F1044A9C6A6	the reason why you shouldent agree with the electoral college system is that voters do not vote for the president .but for the slate of electors who in turn elect the president	Claim	Adequate
c3dc283174f3	5F1044A9C6A6	so the electors can be anyone not holding public office. the state picks on the electors and sometimes state conventions and state partys central committe and the presidental candidates themselves. so what i am saying is that if change to popular vote it willshare the candidate share of the electoral college and invariably eceeds his share of the popular vote.	Evidence	Ineffective
1fecad719ed1	5F1044A9C6A6	there are five reasons for retaining the electoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree and all are paractical reasons are not liberal or conservative reasons.	Evidence	Ineffective
1e819dccfd86	5F626697DD15	In the past years our country has been run by a "electoral college" voting system. Has always been the soultion to our (america's) equation. Its been in bussines since 2012 now and so far has seen no problems. Our country has a strong base an voting system for our country period .	Position	Effective
8811461a530e	5F626697DD15	another great reason electoral college has , is that a big problem ,like "Big States"	Claim	Adequate
3974560fdbb4	5F626697DD15	even if the state has a huge population than other states . they equal out the vote of thepopulations so that every one could have an equal chance.	Evidence	Ineffective
6c7526a902dd	5F626697DD15	Like how every thing is settled majoritry rule , but in this case "everybodys president".	Claim	Adequate
a3230593a5f4	5F626697DD15	Every one has part in the election during Electoral College , no one is left out like popular voting ways. From "source 3: in defense of the electoral college :five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by richard A. Posner.	Evidence	Ineffective
370f2495810b	5F626697DD15	Even though" elctoral college may some times be unfair out dated , and irrational."(from "source 2: the indefensible elctoral college: why even the best -laid defenses of the system are wrong").	Counterclaim	Effective
0e507b33eb4d	5F626697DD15	The way we are voting now has no problems so far	Rebuttal	Effective
8a1bd3378142	5F626697DD15	by far this is the best efficent ,wide variety of choices an accecible to all in the U.S. It has been updated and fitted toward our government.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
f6d5568b6075	5F931A3FF8F9	Even after proven wrong, people are still thinking that the face on mars is an actual alien made face.	Position	Ineffective
fc96cd8f60e8	5F931A3FF8F9	In paragraph 10 it staes that on April 5th 1998 a global surveyor flew over Cydonia with a camera 10 times sharper than the photo taken in the original 1976 picture, shown to prove that on this picture the closer up it looks less like a face. But this wasn't the end of the research.	Evidence	Ineffective
2cf3de29cb14	5F931A3FF8F9	The reaseach continues but with an even better camera to try and prove all of the conspiracy believing people wrong. In paragraph 11 it states that the new digital image taken in 2001, was a 3 times bigger sized camera from the 1998 photo, and it was sharper than ever. This image spans over 1.56 meters! If this "face" was made by aliens, then why were there no artifacts found around the photograph?	Evidence	Adequate
747a7126dccc	5F931A3FF8F9	The extremely high def. picture would have shown said artifacts. But there are still specticals believing otherwise.	Claim	Adequate
76585666ecb0	5F931A3FF8F9	The pictures are proven to be a natural born landform, pictures don't lie.	Claim	Adequate
cf0ece0da8d4	5F931A3FF8F9	Yes, maybe if we were ON Mars we would find some new facts to maybe prove one anothers views even more	Counterclaim	Adequate
e253492e81bc	5F931A3FF8F9	but for right now NASA is winning. Conspiracy theories are theories. Picture evidence is pure fact shown to a persons face.	Rebuttal	Adequate
6b06f71c2f25	5F931A3FF8F9	Just like the belief in wether or not earth and people were made by god or science. They're both theories that's why people have to have "faith" in what they believe. The Big Bang theory for example is a theory because it doesn't have enough evidence to be proven that it legitimately happened. It goes the same with religion.	Evidence	Ineffective
b0559749a176	5F931A3FF8F9	In conclusion, people all have thir different beliefs. Some believe that the "face" was alien made, some believe it's natural born. But no matter what people believe, fact is fact. What would you believe, a conspiracy (something not officially proven) or a fact with picture evidence?	Concluding Statement	Adequate
523b6890e4c8	5F9EA3F22EDD	Twenty five years ago somthing happend they were in space and they found the face on mars. I am going to give you some ressons why aliens did not make the face on mars here is why	Lead	Adequate
6e09a902750f	5F9EA3F22EDD	When pepole say that the face on mars was created by aliens they are wrong	Position	Adequate
4bfa3190cdd0	5F9EA3F22EDD	The face on mars was a pictures that the vikings took from 1976. When vikings were snapping pictures of possible landing sites for its sister ship viking two. So we already know that there were pepole on mars before so they might of built the face on mars.	Evidence	Ineffective
e3f45c355d26	5F9EA3F22EDD	Mission controllers had to be preparede to look agian. Then gavin said ''its not going to be a easy to target cydonia''. Althoght that few sientiste belived the face on marswas an alien artifact pictures became a priority for Nasa.	Evidence	Ineffective
9389a2d961bd	5F9EA3F22EDD	Some people might thing that aliens made the face on mars he it is why aliens did not make the face on mars	Claim	Ineffective
4e4acfe7f347	5F9EA3F22EDD	What pepole do not know abot the face on mars is that there was a picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the american west it also canbe reminded most of the snake river plain of idaho.	Evidence	Adequate
99e888cf7319	5F9EA3F22EDD	When the viking took the picture it was 1.56 meters and when the vikings were not around no more Nasa took the picture again and it was 43 meters per pixel.	Evidence	Ineffective
e7abaf069135	5F9EA3F22EDD	Thousand of pepole gatherd to see the image first appeared on a JPL site and a natural landform. Whe they saw the picture they right away notieced that it was no alien monument after all.	Evidence	Adequate
45a825342ba6	5F9EA3F22EDD	The face of mars has become very populer icon it was in hollywood film on books and magazines and also radios and grocery stores. Some people wanted to defenders of Nasabudget wish that a ancient civilzation on mars to destory the faces of mars. Few days later Nasa recived a image for all to see the caption noted a rock formation that resembles the humans head. Nasa wanted to do a surprise amoung missions controllers back at the jet propulsion lab when the face was appered on their jets propulsion lab. When Nasa got the pictures they said that about the same height as the face on mars. Whe they got a rule of tumb you could discern things in a digital image three times bigger then the pixel size.	Evidence	Ineffective
556dbad043f7	5F9EA3F22EDD	So i thing about what i told you you can know say that aliens did not create the face on mars.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
e3a2a0f10723	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Recently I have begun to research the difference in effect on the people of Ameirca, between the Electoral College and the result of popular cote for President. I have found out that our founding fathers created the Electoral College in the Constitution, so that while the votes between Congress and the people may be different, ther could be a compromise. Our country; well our world, is evolving with the changes in generation. 2015 has come upon us, and with this year brings a whole new change in cutural diversity and tehcnology. So while I believe sticking to our coutry's Constitution is vital for some reasons, I also believe it is outdated in others.	Lead	Effective
ff7e97b3ec0d	5FBEBF4F7E1D	I believe that the Electoral College puts a restraint on the freedom our people, new and old, should possess.	Position	Adequate
06d1e40f0e3e	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Our people have to vote for a party, a group of people that don't show either their faces or their true personalities, to trust well enough with their vote to go for the President they think is right for the Country.	Claim	Adequate
607cd3273e4f	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Although that is very rarely ever betrayed- as noted by my recent research	Counterclaim	Adequate
76cae516f4bd	5FBEBF4F7E1D	-I do believe that it is against our certain rights as a United States citizen not to know who exactly we are putting our faith in.	Rebuttal	Adequate
369aae149df4	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Also, even if we do put our full faith in these mysterious political parties, like we have for years and years, who's to say that our vote will even matter? Al Gore, in the year 2000, had more popular votes from the people than Bush, yet he received fewer electoral votes, which decided the winner of the election. Why have us put in our vote at all, if it means nothing to 538 politicians?	Evidence	Adequate
db095911fbbc	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Our country is made up of millions, upon millions of strong women, men, and children and they should be the deciding factor in the elections. It's our country just as much as it is the men that make up the Electoral College. A requirement of 270 electoral votes must be made in favor for one presidential candidate	Evidence	Adequate
6bddb9ee852c	5FBEBF4F7E1D	why should such a small number mean more against the millions from the citizens of this great country, the same people that make up the great state of Florida.	Claim	Ineffective
03ad3709beb6	5FBEBF4F7E1D	I understand the need for the Electoral College, when it comes to some decisions. Like avoiding a national catastrophe when it comes to the nuber of swing-votes.	Counterclaim	Adequate
fe9227c4722f	5FBEBF4F7E1D	While I am a woman of passion, I do allow myself to see both sides of the story and I think while the Electoral College can do good, it can also do bad for this country. It is outdated, overused, and wrong.	Rebuttal	Adequate
047529134454	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Our founding fathers built the Constitution and this country we call home, and while that is a great thing...times are changing and the power of the House, and the Senate, should now be moved on to the people.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
9a8020b7f47f	5FBEBF4F7E1D	Some states, like North Carolina and Rhode Island were even unable to know close to anything about the current eection between Gore and Bush in 200.	Evidence	Adequate
10c67ba09b5a	5FC3B96C3EA1	I'm here to talk to you about keeping the electoral college	Position	Adequate
40156c4589a6	5FC3B96C3EA1	The electoral college is a prodess that our founding fathers established	Claim	Adequate
d735b84c2f80	5FC3B96C3EA1	Its said to be in pur decleration as part of the 23rd amendment. For so the district of Columbia is allocated 3 elctors but only for the electoral college. With saying we vote every 4 years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When a citizan votes for their candidate choice they are also voting for the candidate's electors.	Evidence	Ineffective
1f4e5827ebed	5FC3B96C3EA1	There are ups and downs to having the Electoral College. For one the peoples opinion should matter	Claim	Adequate
6076551bbce4	5FC3B96C3EA1	They were given a gallup poll in which over 60% of the voters prefer a direct election. In 2000 we had our great fiasco which was the biggest election crisis. Eventually the electoral college fixed it. When ever the votes are tied the house of representatives get involved which can change the whole election.	Evidence	Adequate
0de9efde53cd	5FC3B96C3EA1	With saying all of this there are 5 reasons to keep our lovely electoral college:	Claim	Adequate
3a04fc692048	5FC3B96C3EA1	1) Certainty of outcome: Disputes are possible but very unlikely to happen. There are a total of 538 million votes. So its very easy for there to be a landslide of a vote. "In 2012's election Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney recieved all the basis." 2) Everyone's President: One region (south, northeast, etc.) does not have enough votes to elect a president. In saying that no favorite candidate recieves any electoral votes just because he increased his plurality in states that for a fact he can win in. 3) Swing States: The winner-take-all method shows the candidates that they should pay attention to the toss-up states. These states will pay very close attention to the candidates campaign, showing that they need to focus on their campaigns. The toss-up states are more likely to be the thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful votes should decide the election. 4) Big States: "A large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does" 5) Avoid Run-Off Elections: The electoral college avoids having an election in which no candidate recieves the majority of the votes.	Evidence	Adequate
0e4d0d5357e5	5FE588C6DDB5	As stated in the article, the Electoral College process consists of the selction of the electors, the meeting of the electors, where they vote for PPresident and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. A state's entitled number of electors is equal to the number of members in its Congressional Delegation. There is one for each member in the House of Representatives, and two for every Senator.	Lead	Adequate
6cafe33b800c	5FE588C6DDB5	There are many reasons why the voting process should be changed to popular vote instead of the Electoral College.	Position	Effective
0cb9c48c0950	5FE588C6DDB5	Unfair elections	Claim	Adequate
e9bfe5dbb89f	5FE588C6DDB5	the freedom of the people.	Claim	Adequate
fdca4e83d71a	5FE588C6DDB5	the Electoral College is often considered an anachonism and is unliked across the nation. The reasons for which vary greatly from certainty of outcome to big states to swing states.	Claim	Effective
a3e86cfe1979	5FE588C6DDB5	Certainty of outcome means that one of the Presidential Candidates has to be cosen to become President. There are no recounts in Electoral College, whoever they like the most becomes President, and that ins't fair to the people. Bigger states tend to have more members in the electoral college. This can greatly influence an election if a big state like Texas favors one candidate over the other. Swing states are the states that recieve more atention than other states due to bias, greatly influencing votes. In my opinion, this is something that needs to be changed.	Evidence	Effective
bd26c7ed3f8e	5FE588C6DDB5	Citizens of the United States of America are the ones who are supposed to decide who should be the President of the United States of America.	Claim	Effective
c2a5cfb6410a	5FE588C6DDB5	It isn't right to select a few people from each state to decide who the President will be. That power lies with the people, and nobody should be able to take that away. The votes of millions and millions of people are out-weighed by the votes of a few hundred men and women. This is unjust and unfair in every way. If all the people in the United States wanted somebody as President, but the Electoral College disagreed, the Electoral College would win. Why should the Electoral College have more power than all of the people of the United States; they shouldn't. The power to decide who is President of the United States of America should always lie with the good citizens that live here.	Evidence	Effective
1a877f373054	5FE588C6DDB5	I hope that the voting process will change. I hope that it will finally become fair. That it will become what the people want it to be. It should be what the people want it to be. We the people of the United States have the power to change this, and we should work to change it. The voting process should no longer be the Electoral College but should be dicided by the people and only the people. The voting process needs to be fair and needs to be what the people want it to be.	Concluding Statement	Effective
1c7bade6942e	5FE67C1664B6	I know and believe the "face on Mars" is just a natrual landform. I don't find it possible that this landform could be evidence for any life on Mars. Even if it was why would there be a head without a body to be found? Also, why would NASA hide something like this, this would be considered a good discovery?	Lead	Adequate
4cf7486e4bc4	5FE67C1664B6	All these things are reasons why I believe that ''face on mars'' is a natrual landform.	Position	Adequate
1c526a2a5231	5FE67C1664B6	"Face on Mars could'nt of possibly been evidence of life on mars because, why would there be a face but no body to go along with it	Claim	Ineffective
dee86dd85b2b	5FE67C1664B6	Also, If NASA had dicovered something as amazing as life on Mars they would be happy to let the world know. The only reason to believe there is life on Mars is the natraul landform other than that there is no reason to believe. In conclusion, I do not believe that the ''face on Mars'' is proof of life. I also feel that the natrual landform is the only reason people believe that it is.	Evidence	Ineffective
6a91b0155397	5FF1D599D746	I STUDENT_NAME has had it with the principal	Lead	Ineffective
d2f7fc628a34	5FF1D599D746	just because students have C' s doesn't mean that you yourself should keep them from what they want to do	Position	Adequate
368795f66d45	5FF1D599D746	why would you change that thy can't be in sports because they don't have a B average inside class that's just plane out dumb if some of the teachers say that a C' s ok then that mean a C' s ok i know your a principal and all but you must understand that most of the students with a C turn out to be a really good athlete	Evidence	Adequate
13d1fe6e806d	5FF1D599D746	not all students wound be standing at a B average in there class. So don't be so harsh about students getting a C	Claim	Adequate
6a138e36c546	5FF1D599D746	i know you want us to do well and all	Counterclaim	Adequate
786867fa89ca	5FF1D599D746	but you just need to calm you nerves a bit and stop getting so worked up and stuff i know this isn't a nice letter to you but how else would you understand or do you understand	Rebuttal	Ineffective
c9cf12616e01	5FF1D599D746	hope you can reconsider about students getting what they get to me its not fare to those who don't have an A or a B but they are good at sports an cant join	Concluding Statement	Adequate
649505a5dd1b	5FFA4762D642	I beleive that you should consider voting against the electoral college. Now you may ask why, but, I assure you that the electoral college is a way for corrupt presidential candidates to win the office and make this great nation a horrible place.	Position	Effective
4bc37d8749e3	5FFA4762D642	Segregationists replacing voters of one canidate for another	Claim	Effective
98d2a8b713fa	5FFA4762D642	the election could become a catastrophe if a tie were to happen	Claim	Effective
75b2aa084cbb	5FFA4762D642	there is a chance of a "disaster factor" happening.	Claim	Effective
15e4f90f0679	5FFA4762D642	In 1960 segregationists in Louisiana nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose J.F.K.	Claim	Effective
47ea5f323482	5FFA4762D642	Source 2, Bradford Plumer, The indefensible electoral college: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, P. 11, line 44) Imagine if the corrupters had been able to corrupt the election, we might have had a fiasco bigger than the 2000 presidential fiasco. If we were to continue to turn our backs on the matter we would soon be run by fatasses who spent all their time gaming and would claim they know exactly how the sytem works, opposed to a real man who spent all his time rising from the bottom up and knows the system by heart. Who do you think would win if those 2 people were to run for President? Not the one who should.	Evidence	Effective
0eda2bf6eec1	5FFA4762D642	Some people claim an electoral tie is impossible	Counterclaim	Adequate
689a4cc1a08b	5FFA4762D642	but, in 1968 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election, if that doesn't seem so bad lets take a look at how many people are in the United States alone. In 1976 a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters from Ohio and 3,687 from Hawaii had voted the other way. (Plumer, P. 12, line 80)	Rebuttal	Effective
b5d0a5155e76	5FFA4762D642	The election is really only a few swing voters away from catastrophe, and possibly, the worst government shutdown these United States have ever seen.	Claim	Adequate
9f50946d1b4b	5FFA4762D642	So, if 41,971 voters from 1968 didn't seem like alot, then lets look at the 9,246 voters from 1976, ties are seemingly getting closer and closer, what will happen when it is too late?	Evidence	Adequate
21fc3a2c930c	5FFA4762D642	There is always the off chance of a "disaster factor" occuring	Claim	Adequate
66e6a060558e	5FFA4762D642	like the one in the 2000 Al Gore VS. Bush Presidential election. Imagine if that were to happen again, only, this time, we put a blood thirsty, war hungry, nuclear savage into office. Imagine the Iraq and Afghanistan wars from 2000-present and then imagine them being fought on our own soil, imagine, instead of little Iragi children fighting against an invading force, your children fighting against an invading force, and that is just one of the minor things that could happen. Imagine if we put a man in office who thought the way to answer everything was through nuclear war, imagine what would happen to the United States. These are just a few examples of what could happen if another "disaster factor" were to happen again.	Evidence	Effective
c401d9a6f93b	5FFA4762D642	These are the 3 reasons as to why i beleive you should consider voting against using the electoral college. Imagine if We the People actually got to vote OUR favorite president into office on OUR own terms instead of some idiots a political party throws together, imagine how much better off we would be than we are now.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
d075e5d57b7c	603108B7285B	There is a lot contraversy regarding the Electoral College system of voting in the United States. Some voting members would argue that the system, although flawed, has yet to make a monumental mistake, and say that the minor issues were resolved or at the very least barely effective in the overall outcome of the capmaign. However, with the flaws and holes in the system we have alerady experienced, there is bound to be many more mistakes, and it would be shocking to very few that some of those mistakes are catastrophic	Lead	Effective
88dc1da8909a	603108B7285B	We should remove the system of the Electoral College because it is questionable, problematic, and does not represent well our democracy.	Position	Effective
6bdefa6cfd54	603108B7285B	The Elecoral College uses a group of people from each state, numbers varying from each, to represent voters in an election. The voters mark down a candidate on a ballot. However, they are actually voting for a group of strangers to represent them. Many voters do not even realize that this is the case. In politics, there are many powerful and influential people who will go to drastic measures to ensure that their ideas somehow make it to power. Bribes and insentives could easily be given to electors in attempts to sway their vote. Speaking of, these electors can be anyone who are not in a public office position, emphasis on the anyone. Voters can never really be sure that they can trust those strangers who they did not even get to select. Once the votes have been counted, voters cannot fully control who the elctors actually vote for. There have been instances where electors have attempted to completely avert the votes cast and choose a different candidate that they want in office.	Evidence	Effective
72040b9a2910	603108B7285B	It only seems logical that voters should have a direct say in the presidential election by participating in an election by popular vote. This way, there is less opportunity for scandal and confusion in the voting process.	Claim	Effective
700ec75503bf	603108B7285B	In 1960, a group of segretationists in the Louisiana legislature almost succeeded in removing electors who supported John F. Kennedy with those who opposed him. If this had happened, all of the states electoral votes would have been cast by biased electors, rather than by the actual voters themselves. In the same year, Hawaii sent two state electors to congress instead of one. It is sad that we maintain a system in our government that continues to let issues like this arise. Along with issues with the electors, why is it that the size of a state automatically gives it a bigger advantage in elections? Texas and California are the most two saught-after swing states in every election. Candidates will do everything they can to win over those electoral votes. But what about the little states? Many of the smaller states do not get visited by candidates. Some never even see campaign ads. This system we are using creates target areas in the United States that are more valuable in elections than others. This is in no way fair to the voters in smaller states, despite having the exact same rights as voters of bigger states.	Evidence	Effective
9ae940c21a8b	603108B7285B	The Electoral College is proving to be less and less glamorous with every passing election. Slip ups like this can create a monumentally bad situation, and unfortunately, this system is only bound to create more.	Claim	Effective
ac59fa49c761	603108B7285B	Many people remember the problem of the 2000 presidential election. The Electoral College had very effectively exemplified its flaws and unefficient ways of opperating. Al Gore and George Bush were running apposed, and despite winning the overall popular vote in the country, Gore lost the election to Bush. Bush had received the most electoral votes, therefore winning him the presidency. Basically, despite the fact that more citizens chose Gore to be president, Bush won out. In our constitution it is written that citizens of the United States have an unwavering right to vote and select who gets put into office. In this case, it sounds more like the number of electoral votes has an unwavering right to select who gets put into office.	Evidence	Effective
615b752acff8	603108B7285B	This goes against a democratic republic way of opperating our country and, in many ways, makes it more difficult for cititzens to take advantage of their rights.	Claim	Effective
35f8a63ec2f9	603108B7285B	For as many frustratingly resolvable problems that are created by the Electoral College, there are certain things about the Electoral College that could possibly make it worth keeping.	Counterclaim	Effective

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because they can not be on their telephone

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not due what they are spouse to due.

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I want to play whit my brothers go out side play soccer and i say just for a little I am to playing with then but a get distracted and i for got the i have to do homework or study for a test. Some time I get distracted by seeing my brother playing video even went they is a lot of noise i get distracted because i want to what is happening or what is going on. I remember one day the I have to finish a test review at home because I do not have time to do it at school I do not finish because I get distracted by brothers. They were making a lot of noise and i could no concentrate because of then. My brothers are the same way as me they can get distracted fully easy and not pay attention on what they doing maybe they star by doing they homework but they do no finish because they get distracted by the TV or the video game.

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Second, they can use the telephone some time I get a lot distracted whit my telephone because I away want to be in the telephone.

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Went i home I just want to be in my telephone and i do not do my homework. I get fully distracted because I want to text whit my friends or playing video games in my telephone and not Du what i suppose to to do. Went I am at home I have all I want my bed my telephone the TV the I forgot the I have to how or study for a quiz or test. Only because I at home and I have all i need some time i do not want to do anything I get distracted fully easy and more if I have my telephone in front of me because i want to leasing to music or video chat my friend and talk and pay attention on what I suppose to due. Some time my mom tell that I have to stuff in the house so I have to do it even if I am doing homework or studying I have to what she say and then a can kip doing what i was doing. If I have my telephone whit me the only thing i what to do is be in the telephone because it is a easy way to get distracted and not due what you suppose to due.

Evidence

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Some people my say that if students have home school it will be good because some students can get bully at school and they do not want to go back.

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The is say for then because some the students do not ride the bus the parent have to take then to school and the take a lot of time some time because they have to wait. Even they are going late for work and they do not have tame to take then to school. They may say the if they have school at home they do not have to do all the work by taking then to school. some time a lot of kids get bully at school and it more easy for then do do it by home because they do not have to deal with at school they do to have to be worry what would happen to then the net they or what does people are going to do whit then, But I chose to not have school at because some people can get distracted I not saying the all people have the problem I am just saying the i have the problem they my not have. But I do not like have home school because i want to see my friend graduate whit then have fun some time go to party and now more people have more experience.

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In solution, people can do what is best for you if you like do school by home because you do not like people or have personal problem or have i disability that you go it no one is going to say anything. But some time people want to have friends have fun because you are a person the like to be around people that good to. the only thing i am saying chose what is best for you not what is best for other people or what other people think. Make you own decision be proud of you no matter what.

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I think you should change the election by popular vote for the presiden of the united states because then the people would choose who they like better and it would easyer to vote .

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the reason why you shouldent agree with the electoral college system is that voters do not vote for the president .but for the slate of electors who in turn elect the president

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so the electors can be anyone not holding public office. the state picks on the electors and sometimes state conventions and state partys central committe and the presidental candidates themselves. so what i am saying is that if change to popular vote it willshare the candidate share of the electoral college and invariably eceeds his share of the popular vote.

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there are five reasons for retaining the electoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree and all are paractical reasons are not liberal or conservative reasons.

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In the past years our country has been run by a "electoral college" voting system. Has always been the soultion to our (america's) equation. Its been in bussines since 2012 now and so far has seen no problems. Our country has a strong base an voting system for our country period .

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another great reason electoral college has , is that a big problem ,like "Big States"

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even if the state has a huge population than other states . they equal out the vote of thepopulations so that every one could have an equal chance.

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Like how every thing is settled majoritry rule , but in this case "everybodys president".

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Every one has part in the election during Electoral College , no one is left out like popular voting ways. From "source 3: in defense of the electoral college :five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by richard A. Posner.

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Even though" elctoral college may some times be unfair out dated , and irrational."(from "source 2: the indefensible elctoral college: why even the best -laid defenses of the system are wrong").

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The way we are voting now has no problems so far

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by far this is the best efficent ,wide variety of choices an accecible to all in the U.S. It has been updated and fitted toward our government.

Concluding Statement

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Even after proven wrong, people are still thinking that the face on mars is an actual alien made face.

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In paragraph 10 it staes that on April 5th 1998 a global surveyor flew over Cydonia with a camera 10 times sharper than the photo taken in the original 1976 picture, shown to prove that on this picture the closer up it looks less like a face. But this wasn't the end of the research.

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The reaseach continues but with an even better camera to try and prove all of the conspiracy believing people wrong. In paragraph 11 it states that the new digital image taken in 2001, was a 3 times bigger sized camera from the 1998 photo, and it was sharper than ever. This image spans over 1.56 meters! If this "face" was made by aliens, then why were there no artifacts found around the photograph?

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The extremely high def. picture would have shown said artifacts. But there are still specticals believing otherwise.

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The pictures are proven to be a natural born landform, pictures don't lie.

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Yes, maybe if we were ON Mars we would find some new facts to maybe prove one anothers views even more

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but for right now NASA is winning. Conspiracy theories are theories. Picture evidence is pure fact shown to a persons face.

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Just like the belief in wether or not earth and people were made by god or science. They're both theories that's why people have to have "faith" in what they believe. The Big Bang theory for example is a theory because it doesn't have enough evidence to be proven that it legitimately happened. It goes the same with religion.

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In conclusion, people all have thir different beliefs. Some believe that the "face" was alien made, some believe it's natural born. But no matter what people believe, fact is fact. What would you believe, a conspiracy (something not officially proven) or a fact with picture evidence?

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Twenty five years ago somthing happend they were in space and they found the face on mars. I am going to give you some ressons why aliens did not make the face on mars here is why

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When pepole say that the face on mars was created by aliens they are wrong

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The face on mars was a pictures that the vikings took from 1976. When vikings were snapping pictures of possible landing sites for its sister ship viking two. So we already know that there were pepole on mars before so they might of built the face on mars.

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Mission controllers had to be preparede to look agian. Then gavin said ''its not going to be a easy to target cydonia''. Althoght that few sientiste belived the face on marswas an alien artifact pictures became a priority for Nasa.

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Some people might thing that aliens made the face on mars he it is why aliens did not make the face on mars

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What pepole do not know abot the face on mars is that there was a picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the american west it also canbe reminded most of the snake river plain of idaho.

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When the viking took the picture it was 1.56 meters and when the vikings were not around no more Nasa took the picture again and it was 43 meters per pixel.

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Thousand of pepole gatherd to see the image first appeared on a JPL site and a natural landform. Whe they saw the picture they right away notieced that it was no alien monument after all.

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The face of mars has become very populer icon it was in hollywood film on books and magazines and also radios and grocery stores. Some people wanted to defenders of Nasabudget wish that a ancient civilzation on mars to destory the faces of mars. Few days later Nasa recived a image for all to see the caption noted a rock formation that resembles the humans head. Nasa wanted to do a surprise amoung missions controllers back at the jet propulsion lab when the face was appered on their jets propulsion lab. When Nasa got the pictures they said that about the same height as the face on mars. Whe they got a rule of tumb you could discern things in a digital image three times bigger then the pixel size.

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So i thing about what i told you you can know say that aliens did not create the face on mars.

Concluding Statement

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Recently I have begun to research the difference in effect on the people of Ameirca, between the Electoral College and the result of popular cote for President. I have found out that our founding fathers created the Electoral College in the Constitution, so that while the votes between Congress and the people may be different, ther could be a compromise. Our country; well our world, is evolving with the changes in generation. 2015 has come upon us, and with this year brings a whole new change in cutural diversity and tehcnology. So while I believe sticking to our coutry's Constitution is vital for some reasons, I also believe it is outdated in others.

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I believe that the Electoral College puts a restraint on the freedom our people, new and old, should possess.

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Our people have to vote for a party, a group of people that don't show either their faces or their true personalities, to trust well enough with their vote to go for the President they think is right for the Country.

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Although that is very rarely ever betrayed- as noted by my recent research

Counterclaim

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-I do believe that it is against our certain rights as a United States citizen not to know who exactly we are putting our faith in.

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Also, even if we do put our full faith in these mysterious political parties, like we have for years and years, who's to say that our vote will even matter? Al Gore, in the year 2000, had more popular votes from the people than Bush, yet he received fewer electoral votes, which decided the winner of the election. Why have us put in our vote at all, if it means nothing to 538 politicians?

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Our country is made up of millions, upon millions of strong women, men, and children and they should be the deciding factor in the elections. It's our country just as much as it is the men that make up the Electoral College. A requirement of 270 electoral votes must be made in favor for one presidential candidate

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why should such a small number mean more against the millions from the citizens of this great country, the same people that make up the great state of Florida.

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I understand the need for the Electoral College, when it comes to some decisions. Like avoiding a national catastrophe when it comes to the nuber of swing-votes.

Counterclaim

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While I am a woman of passion, I do allow myself to see both sides of the story and I think while the Electoral College can do good, it can also do bad for this country. It is outdated, overused, and wrong.

Rebuttal

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Our founding fathers built the Constitution and this country we call home, and while that is a great thing...times are changing and the power of the House, and the Senate, should now be moved on to the people.

Concluding Statement

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Some states, like North Carolina and Rhode Island were even unable to know close to anything about the current eection between Gore and Bush in 200.

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I'm here to talk to you about keeping the electoral college

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The electoral college is a prodess that our founding fathers established

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Its said to be in pur decleration as part of the 23rd amendment. For so the district of Columbia is allocated 3 elctors but only for the electoral college. With saying we vote every 4 years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When a citizan votes for their candidate choice they are also voting for the candidate's electors.

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There are ups and downs to having the Electoral College. For one the peoples opinion should matter

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They were given a gallup poll in which over 60% of the voters prefer a direct election. In 2000 we had our great fiasco which was the biggest election crisis. Eventually the electoral college fixed it. When ever the votes are tied the house of representatives get involved which can change the whole election.

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With saying all of this there are 5 reasons to keep our lovely electoral college:

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1) Certainty of outcome: Disputes are possible but very unlikely to happen. There are a total of 538 million votes. So its very easy for there to be a landslide of a vote. "In 2012's election Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney recieved all the basis." 2) Everyone's President: One region (south, northeast, etc.) does not have enough votes to elect a president. In saying that no favorite candidate recieves any electoral votes just because he increased his plurality in states that for a fact he can win in. 3) Swing States: The winner-take-all method shows the candidates that they should pay attention to the toss-up states. These states will pay very close attention to the candidates campaign, showing that they need to focus on their campaigns. The toss-up states are more likely to be the thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful votes should decide the election. 4) Big States: "A large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does" 5) Avoid Run-Off Elections: The electoral college avoids having an election in which no candidate recieves the majority of the votes.

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As stated in the article, the Electoral College process consists of the selction of the electors, the meeting of the electors, where they vote for PPresident and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. A state's entitled number of electors is equal to the number of members in its Congressional Delegation. There is one for each member in the House of Representatives, and two for every Senator.

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There are many reasons why the voting process should be changed to popular vote instead of the Electoral College.

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Unfair elections

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the freedom of the people.

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the Electoral College is often considered an anachonism and is unliked across the nation. The reasons for which vary greatly from certainty of outcome to big states to swing states.

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Certainty of outcome means that one of the Presidential Candidates has to be cosen to become President. There are no recounts in Electoral College, whoever they like the most becomes President, and that ins't fair to the people. Bigger states tend to have more members in the electoral college. This can greatly influence an election if a big state like Texas favors one candidate over the other. Swing states are the states that recieve more atention than other states due to bias, greatly influencing votes. In my opinion, this is something that needs to be changed.

Evidence

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Citizens of the United States of America are the ones who are supposed to decide who should be the President of the United States of America.

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It isn't right to select a few people from each state to decide who the President will be. That power lies with the people, and nobody should be able to take that away. The votes of millions and millions of people are out-weighed by the votes of a few hundred men and women. This is unjust and unfair in every way. If all the people in the United States wanted somebody as President, but the Electoral College disagreed, the Electoral College would win. Why should the Electoral College have more power than all of the people of the United States; they shouldn't. The power to decide who is President of the United States of America should always lie with the good citizens that live here.

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I hope that the voting process will change. I hope that it will finally become fair. That it will become what the people want it to be. It should be what the people want it to be. We the people of the United States have the power to change this, and we should work to change it. The voting process should no longer be the Electoral College but should be dicided by the people and only the people. The voting process needs to be fair and needs to be what the people want it to be.

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I know and believe the "face on Mars" is just a natrual landform. I don't find it possible that this landform could be evidence for any life on Mars. Even if it was why would there be a head without a body to be found? Also, why would NASA hide something like this, this would be considered a good discovery?

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All these things are reasons why I believe that ''face on mars'' is a natrual landform.

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"Face on Mars could'nt of possibly been evidence of life on mars because, why would there be a face but no body to go along with it

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Also, If NASA had dicovered something as amazing as life on Mars they would be happy to let the world know. The only reason to believe there is life on Mars is the natraul landform other than that there is no reason to believe. In conclusion, I do not believe that the ''face on Mars'' is proof of life. I also feel that the natrual landform is the only reason people believe that it is.

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I STUDENT_NAME has had it with the principal

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just because students have C' s doesn't mean that you yourself should keep them from what they want to do

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why would you change that thy can't be in sports because they don't have a B average inside class that's just plane out dumb if some of the teachers say that a C' s ok then that mean a C' s ok i know your a principal and all but you must understand that most of the students with a C turn out to be a really good athlete

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not all students wound be standing at a B average in there class. So don't be so harsh about students getting a C

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i know you want us to do well and all

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but you just need to calm you nerves a bit and stop getting so worked up and stuff i know this isn't a nice letter to you but how else would you understand or do you understand

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hope you can reconsider about students getting what they get to me its not fare to those who don't have an A or a B but they are good at sports an cant join

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I beleive that you should consider voting against the electoral college. Now you may ask why, but, I assure you that the electoral college is a way for corrupt presidential candidates to win the office and make this great nation a horrible place.

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Segregationists replacing voters of one canidate for another

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the election could become a catastrophe if a tie were to happen

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there is a chance of a "disaster factor" happening.

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In 1960 segregationists in Louisiana nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose J.F.K.

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Source 2, Bradford Plumer, The indefensible electoral college: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, P. 11, line 44) Imagine if the corrupters had been able to corrupt the election, we might have had a fiasco bigger than the 2000 presidential fiasco. If we were to continue to turn our backs on the matter we would soon be run by fatasses who spent all their time gaming and would claim they know exactly how the sytem works, opposed to a real man who spent all his time rising from the bottom up and knows the system by heart. Who do you think would win if those 2 people were to run for President? Not the one who should.

Evidence

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Some people claim an electoral tie is impossible

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but, in 1968 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election, if that doesn't seem so bad lets take a look at how many people are in the United States alone. In 1976 a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters from Ohio and 3,687 from Hawaii had voted the other way. (Plumer, P. 12, line 80)

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The election is really only a few swing voters away from catastrophe, and possibly, the worst government shutdown these United States have ever seen.

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So, if 41,971 voters from 1968 didn't seem like alot, then lets look at the 9,246 voters from 1976, ties are seemingly getting closer and closer, what will happen when it is too late?

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There is always the off chance of a "disaster factor" occuring

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like the one in the 2000 Al Gore VS. Bush Presidential election. Imagine if that were to happen again, only, this time, we put a blood thirsty, war hungry, nuclear savage into office. Imagine the Iraq and Afghanistan wars from 2000-present and then imagine them being fought on our own soil, imagine, instead of little Iragi children fighting against an invading force, your children fighting against an invading force, and that is just one of the minor things that could happen. Imagine if we put a man in office who thought the way to answer everything was through nuclear war, imagine what would happen to the United States. These are just a few examples of what could happen if another "disaster factor" were to happen again.

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These are the 3 reasons as to why i beleive you should consider voting against using the electoral college. Imagine if We the People actually got to vote OUR favorite president into office on OUR own terms instead of some idiots a political party throws together, imagine how much better off we would be than we are now.

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There is a lot contraversy regarding the Electoral College system of voting in the United States. Some voting members would argue that the system, although flawed, has yet to make a monumental mistake, and say that the minor issues were resolved or at the very least barely effective in the overall outcome of the capmaign. However, with the flaws and holes in the system we have alerady experienced, there is bound to be many more mistakes, and it would be shocking to very few that some of those mistakes are catastrophic

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We should remove the system of the Electoral College because it is questionable, problematic, and does not represent well our democracy.

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The Elecoral College uses a group of people from each state, numbers varying from each, to represent voters in an election. The voters mark down a candidate on a ballot. However, they are actually voting for a group of strangers to represent them. Many voters do not even realize that this is the case. In politics, there are many powerful and influential people who will go to drastic measures to ensure that their ideas somehow make it to power. Bribes and insentives could easily be given to electors in attempts to sway their vote. Speaking of, these electors can be anyone who are not in a public office position, emphasis on the anyone. Voters can never really be sure that they can trust those strangers who they did not even get to select. Once the votes have been counted, voters cannot fully control who the elctors actually vote for. There have been instances where electors have attempted to completely avert the votes cast and choose a different candidate that they want in office.

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It only seems logical that voters should have a direct say in the presidential election by participating in an election by popular vote. This way, there is less opportunity for scandal and confusion in the voting process.

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In 1960, a group of segretationists in the Louisiana legislature almost succeeded in removing electors who supported John F. Kennedy with those who opposed him. If this had happened, all of the states electoral votes would have been cast by biased electors, rather than by the actual voters themselves. In the same year, Hawaii sent two state electors to congress instead of one. It is sad that we maintain a system in our government that continues to let issues like this arise. Along with issues with the electors, why is it that the size of a state automatically gives it a bigger advantage in elections? Texas and California are the most two saught-after swing states in every election. Candidates will do everything they can to win over those electoral votes. But what about the little states? Many of the smaller states do not get visited by candidates. Some never even see campaign ads. This system we are using creates target areas in the United States that are more valuable in elections than others. This is in no way fair to the voters in smaller states, despite having the exact same rights as voters of bigger states.

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The Electoral College is proving to be less and less glamorous with every passing election. Slip ups like this can create a monumentally bad situation, and unfortunately, this system is only bound to create more.

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Many people remember the problem of the 2000 presidential election. The Electoral College had very effectively exemplified its flaws and unefficient ways of opperating. Al Gore and George Bush were running apposed, and despite winning the overall popular vote in the country, Gore lost the election to Bush. Bush had received the most electoral votes, therefore winning him the presidency. Basically, despite the fact that more citizens chose Gore to be president, Bush won out. In our constitution it is written that citizens of the United States have an unwavering right to vote and select who gets put into office. In this case, it sounds more like the number of electoral votes has an unwavering right to select who gets put into office.

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This goes against a democratic republic way of opperating our country and, in many ways, makes it more difficult for cititzens to take advantage of their rights.

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For as many frustratingly resolvable problems that are created by the Electoral College, there are certain things about the Electoral College that could possibly make it worth keeping.

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