tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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14697bf3dee7	A7642F5617E0	I hope that you have learned a lot from this and go along with requiring students to do community service no matter what it is they are doing.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
44f48d20e57b	A774A4991BB1	The Electoral College has been here since the founders of this country put it in our Constitution to please both sides. This Electoral College has made a lot of history in our great nation and we appreciate what it has done for us. It's a huge part of our election process	Lead	Effective
2140adeedfdf	A774A4991BB1	is time we move on from it.	Position	Adequate
a768b796c122	A774A4991BB1	Their have been to many instances where a presidential candidate has had the popular vote but has lost because he didn't have enough electoral votes.	Claim	Effective
025149813809	A774A4991BB1	"It happened in 200, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888" (source 3) This may have not happened more than twice but this could easily happen again and cause a catastrophe. This is why I disapprove of the electoral college.	Evidence	Effective
8168400afa65	A774A4991BB1	This process is also unfair to voters	Claim	Adequate
98a52906af9f	A774A4991BB1	because when they vote for a president they are really voting for electors. The elctors can be any citizen so the voters don't know who the electors are. Voters can rarely decide who the electors vote for which puts them at a disadvantage and is an inconvience for the voters. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (source 2).	Evidence	Effective
5c46836b7fde	A774A4991BB1	There has been several of organizations and people who have tried to get the electoral college deleted from election processes	Claim	Effective
58f23da0b3ba	A774A4991BB1	including ..." Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole , the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO" (Source 2). These are multiple people with proven track records and are some of many who are ready for change. The electoral college has brought good and bad to our country but there are times when things should be left in the past.	Evidence	Effective
0f805300b940	A774A4991BB1	Using the popular vote as the one and only way of electing presidents is needed in this country. The choice of presidents should be soley up to the american people. There should be no electoral college that can totally change the outcome of a election because one candidate doesent have enough electoral votes.	Concluding Statement	Effective
fd755da3a90d	A791047275B9	First off i would like to tell you what a electoral college is	Lead	Ineffective
e182bfafb080	A791047275B9	It is a process when a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The founding fathers established it in the constitution. The process consist of the selection of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The elctoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Each canidate running for president in tour state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by the canidatespolitical party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The presidential electon is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in november.	Evidence	Adequate
bb0eb1fdb81c	A791047275B9	We help choose our states electors when we vote for the president	Claim	Adequate
c6ad671293f5	A791047275B9	because wahen we vote for our canidates we are voting for our canidates electors.	Evidence	Adequate
8459104a2daa	A791047275B9	We have to save the electoral college	Position	Adequate
809dbaaf3d63	A791047275B9	because we have to have 270 electoral votes to have a president	Evidence	Adequate
1e7e379d02e2	A791047275B9	If we got ride of it there would be no president or we would have to come up with an idea related to the electoral college	Claim	Ineffective
c8dadcea5bc4	A791047275B9	Thats why we should keep the elctoral college.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
d33319540956	A798DC70F3FC	Dear state senator i really think we should keep the electoral college. I mean look at how far we have come in are lives were we have kept this system working for years and it has not faild us yet	Position	Adequate
dc956b44e718	A798DC70F3FC	If we try to change IT now we will probally screw every thing up and it will probally be to confusing because of how the world is today.	Claim	Adequate
7f9a3a9f5260	A798DC70F3FC	If you look back at the probloms we had in the past we got passed them and came back stronger and improved we really just need new electors and just keep the system the same but get out with the old people and in with the new ones	Evidence	Ineffective
c73e2f87e155	A798DC70F3FC	This method is a non democratic method also	Counterclaim	Adequate
cbbb60b819ee	A798DC70F3FC	this method also cant get any more fair because the people vote who they want and whoever has more votes then they win. whats not fair about that?	Rebuttal	Adequate
0dd36d487928	A798DC70F3FC	the electoral college avoids the problom of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast. I really think we should keep this method	Concluding Statement	Adequate
ded351eee7e8	A7A467BDEE14	America: land of the free, the brave, and millions of proud citizens who live in a country that prides itself on its preservation of human rights and everything else that makes up a proper society. However, in order to remain a fair republic that truly takes into account the opinions of all citizens, we must make one major change.	Lead	Effective
6865d168f3e5	A7A467BDEE14	The flawed Electoral College must be abolished and replaced with election by popular vote in order to ensure the well being of our country.	Position	Effective
ffe42c0cb937	A7A467BDEE14	Proponents of the Electoral College would gasp in horror at this suggestion, arguing that their systematic method is virtually foolproof	Counterclaim	Adequate
c655b27ebac6	A7A467BDEE14	Nevertheless, with a voting method as complicated as the Electoral College, the room for error is far too great.	Rebuttal	Adequate
c611a6072e62	A7A467BDEE14	Just look at what happened in 1960, when racist legislators tried to replace the democtratic electors chosen by popular vote in order to sabotage John F. Kennedy's chances. Then yet another electoral disaster occured in 2000. Both of these events could very easily happen again and the consequences of such mistakes are unfathomable. History has been proven to repeat itself, and this is no exeption. Who's to say that electors won't just ignore the wishes of voters or that legislators won't manipulate the system? When it comes to choosing our leade, whose actions will ultimately decide whether or not America will continue to survive and thrive, it would be a huge mistake to leave this resposibility to one group of individuals. After all, nobody is perfect.	Evidence	Effective
d84061f2eee9	A7A467BDEE14	Furthermore, advocates of the Electoral College make a major fallacy when they claim that voters in swing states are more informed on election information, therefore it's good that the electoral system causes candidates to only focus on them.	Counterclaim	Effective
62611c73f7f3	A7A467BDEE14	Just consider the fact that by completely ignoring all of the other states, campaigners are ignoring millions of individuals who deserve to have a say in who will be in charge.	Evidence	Adequate
f8229fa94e4c	A7A467BDEE14	Through this one argument, advocates are essentially assuming anyone who doesn't live in a swing state doesn't care about the election as much and therefore they shouldn't have a say in the matter. This is simply not true.	Rebuttal	Effective
d6dda9d0f7d5	A7A467BDEE14	In fact, these advocates fail to acknowledge that if voters in other states are not as educated or interested, it is a consequence of the Electoral College. While politicians are focusing all of their time and effort on the 'thoughtful' voters, other citizens don't get the information they need from seeing campaigns and meeting candidates. They are deprived of the opportunity to make an educated decision like swing voters and that is a fault of the college, not the voters themselves.	Evidence	Effective
17cb7d287b05	A7A467BDEE14	If a tie were to occur, the election would be determined by members of the House of Representatives, who do an even poorer job of representing the people considering each state casts only one vote.	Claim	Effective
b6efe30c2422	A7A467BDEE14	Also, due to the fact that the Electoral College mainly operates with the winner-take-all rule, it is easy for individuals in Democratic or Republican states to feel as if their vote doesn't matter.	Claim	Adequate
1cb03e762fa0	A7A467BDEE14	It is also important to note that at the end of the day, election by popular vote accomplishes the goal of reflecting the opinion of the public far better than election by Electoral College.	Claim	Effective
9ba32495910c	A7A467BDEE14	The popular vote is a clear statement of voters' opinions and is virtually unable to be tampered with. On the other hand, the Electoral College only complicates the situation by introducing a middle man who is prone to bribery and mistakes. Why should we allow candidates to win because of the electoral vote if they do not recieve the overall approval of the public? Compare the opinions of 538 electors to the opinions of hundreds of millions of voters. Evidently, the opinions of all these voters cannot be properly represented by these 538 electors. It's just impossible both logistically and logically.	Evidence	Effective
3fc3134aeed0	A7A467BDEE14	For all of these reasons, I urge you to change the system to election by popular vote.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
a7804e892e5c	A7B069D3B600	Hi my names Kaigen and I am against the idea of self driving vehicles.	Position	Adequate
9648a6341538	A7B069D3B600	I honestly think it would cause more mayham	Claim	Adequate
24cc3a1c4444	A7B069D3B600	Just think about it, what if a deer runs out in front of your car. I know you are probably thinking they have some fool proof plan to avoid these incidents, but take out that word deer and replace it with a child. Yeah that changes things up a little huh. No matter how fool proof they claim their "self driving" cars are it a bad idea. Things happen, technology fails. Its a part of life. The story even says 'the driver has to take control entering or leaving a driveway', or "if theres road work it needs the driver to take over". This is not ok. What happens when you are going through an intersection and the light turns red? Is the car going to speed up, or stop in the middle of the road. What if you are going through a school zone? Hows the car going to know any different?	Evidence	Adequate
3455d4994dc8	A7B069D3B600	They also said in the article "for this to work it would be espensive"	Claim	Adequate
576b09b74d83	A7B069D3B600	In my opinion the last thing we need is to go even further in debt.	Evidence	Ineffective
701272102454	A7B069D3B600	Yes I can see good in this idea, but i beleive the bad over rules the good in this instinse. Just imagine what would happen if a car pulled out in front of you, sure these machines will probably have a pretty good reaction time. But it can not be anywhere close to the reaction time of a frightened parent. Child saftey is the number one thing car manufactures need to be worried about. If they get the "okay" and come out with these i would want to see these flaws adressed before anyone puts a child in the vehicle. I am not saying its a bad idea, heck I even seee a time in the future where a car is driving me around	Evidence	Adequate
8c09c44712e8	A7B069D3B600	I just dont think they have everything figured out yet and i dont think they will have anytime soon. Its reasonable for these to come out on the market, they just need to meet all of the saftey regulations	Claim	Adequate
7f4910ac8586	A7B069D3B600	I am kaigen, and this is why I'm against a vehicle that can "drive itself". Plain and simple they are not safe and would cost far too much to make safe and reasonable.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
8a7b13f18529	A7EA8CF2F203	In many cases there is two sides to an arguement. When there is two sides to an arguement it could go either way. In this case the arguement is about the electoral college. What is the electoral college,it is the the process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the consitution as a compromise between election of president by a vote in congress and election of presidentby popular vote of qualilfied citizens.(stated in paragraph 1)	Lead	Effective
031de613d335	A7EA8CF2F203	I believe strongly that we should keep the electoral college,	Position	Adequate
e962ea82ceff	A7EA8CF2F203	beacuse it keeps people from directly voting for a presdient	Claim	Adequate
c358037887be	A7EA8CF2F203	keeps everything even and mostlikely fair.	Claim	Adequate
a3d3f89e60c3	A7EA8CF2F203	Most people think that we should get rid of the electoral college,its clearly a state of opinion.	Counterclaim	Adequate
352bae4e4394	A7EA8CF2F203	When you really sit down and think about how most people vote in the Northeast and South they are not the thoughtful voters.	Claim	Adequate
9929e55f42ac	A7EA8CF2F203	(said in paragraph 19 line 2 paragraph 4) Take obama for an example, he was the first black presidental canidate and most of the darker skined group of people got excited because for the first time in history a black man could be president,many blacks thought that voting for the black president would mean that they would better respersatition in office,so many blacks and some whites voted for obama to win. Not really paying much attention to what or who they were voting for. Which you could probably figure out that obama won they had the bigger vote. If we are able to keep the electoal college it would mean that wouldnt happen agian because it could go through the electorals they would choose who is best. Dont get me wrong people actually voted for obama anyways ,because of what he stood for but most didn't.	Evidence	Ineffective
0c3b54dec77a	A7EA8CF2F203	In reality most people think that the voting is unfair, like what happened with Presidnet Kennedy.	Claim	Adequate
be1969c113a1	A7EA8CF2F203	Kennedy was the stronger, better canidate to be president. I believe that the electors chose right, it may not have been who the people wanted. He was way better then Nixon could ever be. That may have made the people very mad,which led to the assination of President Kennedy. Kenndey changed the country and to this day in my mind, known as one of the best presdidents we ever had. Thanks to the electoral system we had Kennedy elected instead of Nixon,could you just imagine how the country would be today. If Kennedy didnt win,or if Nixon was president just one little thing could change everything. Everything happens for a reason and having the electoral college helps. I know that Nixon has the popular vote but kennedy needed to win for the better of our country,its my state of opinion.	Evidence	Adequate
a88bd428d8e6	A7EA8CF2F203	Most people think that having the electoral college is bad,why? because they believe that the people should be able to vote directly.	Counterclaim	Adequate
3703abd37c8a	A7EA8CF2F203	I understand how and why they believe that. When you think about votin directly it would insure the people that whoever they are voting for they would be sure to get thier votes and for sure get the president that they wished to be president.	Evidence	Adequate
90de6bd3f39d	A7EA8CF2F203	I could truley undertsand why and this would work out, but i still strongly believe that this could be the cause to many problems.	Rebuttal	Adequate
008f962308e1	A7EA8CF2F203	In conclusion,I beleive that we shoudl keep the electoral college becaue he keeps the people for choosing a president direlcetly. If they make a bad chose someone,who knows is the better canidate that they could over rule the peoples vote. So it would all fair in most turns and would possibably helping the country,and many people believe otherwise its truely a state of opinion. You choose who chooses the president.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
547a6aebd039	A7EC6F462F8B	Driverless cars are the future of transportation. These types of cars will allow for the easy transportation of people without the need to take accout for human fatigue.	Position	Effective
29c42b4b9865	A7EC6F462F8B	Increasing technological standards along with the development of new programs are allowing for the development of driverless cars with power and complexity never before seen. While driverless cars have been a reality for mulitple years now, the technology to be able to allow them to function is just now being completed.	Evidence	Effective
f1a75350a013	A7EC6F462F8B	After maunufactures discovered that it would be too costly to devlop smarter roads, the focus shifted to smart cars, cars capable of driving themselves.	Evidence	Adequate
2a8935fd290e	A7EC6F462F8B	Driverless cars would allow for the development of new transportation infrastructure and an upgrade to the traditional way of driving, as well as being more fuel efficient and more enviromentally friendly.	Claim	Effective
802a6a4fd554	A7EC6F462F8B	Google's own self driving cars have been able to driver over half a million miles without a crash. (Paragraph 2) Here we can see that the technology is there, it just has not been able to be implemented and the law has not caught up to where self driving cars are	Evidence	Adequate
b0a4ecccd5a8	A7EC6F462F8B	. People would become better connected in a world occupied by self driving cars.	Claim	Effective
512a8b5a95f0	A7EC6F462F8B	The reliable and more affordable use of transport that allows for the car to continue driving even after the driver has fallen asleep or become fatigued will allow for people to better communicate and be more easily connected to friends and family. New technology, like the "LIDAR" (Paragraph 4) becoming more readily available to the average consumer and not sitting at a price point well out of the average persons reach allows for the driverless car to become more of a reality.	Evidence	Adequate
f491ebe68edb	A7EC6F462F8B	Even looking outside of truly driverless cars, cars that used assisted driving features, like cars made by BMW, GM, or Google, are still capable of helping the driver drive in a more safe manner.	Claim	Effective
47058891b039	A7EC6F462F8B	Technology has been developed that allows for the driver to be alerted to a hazerdous situation by vibrating the seats, flashing a light, or finding another way to notify the driver. (Paragraph 7) The technology is present to allow self driving cars to function, it just needs some fine tuning. Cars that have been made by these manufactures "... can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves," (Paragraph 7)	Evidence	Adequate
e2193f7244a5	A7EC6F462F8B	It is important to understand why driverless cars propose a danger to us, however, because the benefit of an automated car is not gained without risks and challengs.	Counterclaim	Effective
3910136d42ca	A7EC6F462F8B	Driverless cars, at this very moment, are not capable of dealing with complicated traffic situations or roadblocks, and this is primarily the argument for why these cars should not be allowed on the open road. Other arguments include the reasoning that the enjoyment is being taken out of driving by allowing a computer to do the driving for you. In regards to that, I respond by saying that cars that will have automated features will also be able to be driven. Most are not completely autonomous and will allow for the driver to take control at their leisure.	Evidence	Effective
5320aa58af53	A7EC6F462F8B	In a hypothetical world where the autonomous car drives perfectly in all conditions, the driver would still be able to take control of the car and drive as s/he pleases and continue the drive as they wish it to be driven.	Rebuttal	Effective
d45448371725	A7EC6F462F8B	Some people might see a driverless car as a loss of freedom or a loss of control,	Counterclaim	Effective
08979033b193	A7EC6F462F8B	but a better way to observe the idea of a driverless car is to think of it as a car, just like any other, with a few extra features; and one of those features happens to be that the car is capable of driving itself.	Rebuttal	Effective
16dad2992035	A7EC6F462F8B	Another argument not stated in the document was the issue of misuse of the self driving car. A major trajedy in our society is that people would possibly try to use its autonomous abilities to achieve a terrorist goal.	Counterclaim	Effective
d343993116a2	A7EC6F462F8B	A driverless car could be used as a weapon for a group not willing to lose their own members in a fight,	Evidence	Adequate
7151c931e65a	A7EC6F462F8B	but this is still not a reason to stop the development of new technology.	Rebuttal	Effective
de951777f128	A7EC6F462F8B	We as humans can not let fear stand in our way and give up on our evolutionary duty because we are afraid that someone else will hurt us for it.	Claim	Effective
5cedc4401f61	A7EC6F462F8B	We are required as competent members of an advanced society to continue to devlop this technological marvel and use it for the betterment of mankind. Of course evil will still exist, and it always has and always will. It is important that we continue to develop, to move on in the face of danger and not let fear take hold of us.	Evidence	Adequate
b4eba96e1e8b	A7EC6F462F8B	With self driving cars, the possibilities are endless.	Claim	Effective
524507361f31	A7EC6F462F8B	We have the power to travel anywhere and drive anywhere without worrying about fatigue or losing your way. We could leave Chicago one night, get a good nights rest, and wake up in Washington D.C., parked at your hotel. A fully developed automated car society would help to reduce the risk of collisions and would reduce emmissions that are harmful to the enviroment. Advanced technology has become more readily available to the consumer in recent years and allows for the driverless car to be cheaper and easier to produce than ever before when technology that these cars required was but a dream. Driverless cars could allow for a safer society that is more connected with transport that is cheaper and more reliable than that of the traditional car. Greater fuel efficiency and the lower enviromental impacts would promote the development of these cars by companies wishing to see a better world.	Evidence	Effective
309043f78242	A7EC6F462F8B	The self driving car is the next step in the automobiles evolution.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
98e58be92fb2	A803835B8164	we should not keep the Electoral College and change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States.	Position	Adequate
66c7ca906be6	A803835B8164	Primarily, the Electoral College is the selection of electors by popular vote to represent their supported party in the official presidential election. There is a total of 538 Electoral College electors and it only takes the majority, 270 votes, to elect the president.	Evidence	Ineffective
58b3024d8ba4	A803835B8164	It is not fair that the general population does not get an independent vote.	Claim	Adequate
57701cbeb90c	A803835B8164	It is not the ordinary people who get to choose the president they want;	Claim	Adequate
ebe44ac604be	A803835B8164	it is dependent upon which party the elector chooses. Voters don't have control over who their electors vote for. As said in the second article, Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 against Bush however, Gore lost the electoral vote resulting in the loss of the presidential election. In the past, there have been voters who refused to vote for their party's candidate and voted for whomever. There is also the concern of a tie in the electoral vote. If that were to happen then there would certainly be no chance that the popular vote would have an impact on the selection of the president because it would now be in the hands of the House of Representatives.	Evidence	Adequate
ba7f470cb462	A803835B8164	The Electoral College is unfair to voters; they do not get the final choice as to where their vote goes.	Claim	Adequate
7d37cf3b6951	A803835B8164	They are not voting for the presidential candidate they want. The voters are voting for a slate of electors.	Evidence	Adequate
080f8c90d523	A803835B8164	However, there are some benefits to having an Electoral College such as larger states getting more attention from presidential candidates than smaller states and it also avoids Run-Off elections which is when no candidate recieves a majority of the votes.	Counterclaim	Adequate
33d0e78ea687	A803835B8164	State Senator, please realize that this is not fair or justifiable. There may be an upside to the Electoral College, however, it is in my strongest opinion based on factual content that this is not a fair method and it should be abolished. Being empathetic for the ordinary voters of the United States would provide clarity for your opinion on the situation. Imagine if you were a general voter who did not get an official vote in the presidential election; you would feel cheated also. This is why I ask you to strongly consider these legitimate words.	Concluding Statement	Effective
6989e84ffee8	A817C51F0787	There are many things up in Mars. Some , well many, that we do not even know about. Now many believe the face on Mars was created my aliens. But, how could it be so?	Lead	Adequate
341f39837d82	A817C51F0787	Well, because it was not. First of all how could have the aliens created an artifact.	Claim	Adequate
460f1e94dae5	A817C51F0787	How they create it as a form of a face. It's not like aliens just have tools laying around and they sculpt when they are bored. It started to form over the years. The way it was forming and the shadows around it just made it look more of a face.	Evidence	Adequate
534711ecacb4	A817C51F0787	With all honesty do you not think if NASA was 100% sure this "face" was created by aliens they would've announced it?	Claim	Adequate
b3e24569b0fc	A817C51F0787	That would have been big proof that aliens do exist. After all scientists have been trying to look for any other life on other planets for over the years. So that just says NASA also sees it as just a natrual landform.	Evidence	Adequate
41e5a5057649	A817C51F0787	The face on Mars is became very popular. But not in the scientist type way.	Claim	Ineffective
2603c8bb8401	A817C51F0787	It has become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film,appeared in books, magazines,radio talk shows, even haunted grocery store checkout likes for 25 years. Peopl seem to find it interesting since they are talking and mentioning it alot. I am thinking they just seem to find it interesting that aliens might have created it.	Evidence	Adequate
60ed661de2a8	A817C51F0787	I think it is safe to say that the face on Mars is just a natrual landform	Position	Adequate
e1057f9f7e28	A817C51F0787	NASA thinks that, so maybe we shoud too. After all they are scientist and part of NASA that knows all this. Later on I know that they will fnd other thing more evidence. People might have something new to believe.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
c2391d7d3fab	A8411CE08C68	The president of the United States should be decided by the Electoral College process, not by most popular vote. There are many reasons why we should keep the way we vote the same.	Position	Adequate

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I hope that you have learned a lot from this and go along with requiring students to do community service no matter what it is they are doing.

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The Electoral College has been here since the founders of this country put it in our Constitution to please both sides. This Electoral College has made a lot of history in our great nation and we appreciate what it has done for us. It's a huge part of our election process

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is time we move on from it.

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Their have been to many instances where a presidential candidate has had the popular vote but has lost because he didn't have enough electoral votes.

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"It happened in 200, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888" (source 3) This may have not happened more than twice but this could easily happen again and cause a catastrophe. This is why I disapprove of the electoral college.

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This process is also unfair to voters

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because when they vote for a president they are really voting for electors. The elctors can be any citizen so the voters don't know who the electors are. Voters can rarely decide who the electors vote for which puts them at a disadvantage and is an inconvience for the voters. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (source 2).

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There has been several of organizations and people who have tried to get the electoral college deleted from election processes

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including ..." Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole , the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO" (Source 2). These are multiple people with proven track records and are some of many who are ready for change. The electoral college has brought good and bad to our country but there are times when things should be left in the past.

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Using the popular vote as the one and only way of electing presidents is needed in this country. The choice of presidents should be soley up to the american people. There should be no electoral college that can totally change the outcome of a election because one candidate doesent have enough electoral votes.

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First off i would like to tell you what a electoral college is

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It is a process when a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The founding fathers established it in the constitution. The process consist of the selection of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The elctoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Each canidate running for president in tour state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by the canidatespolitical party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The presidential electon is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in november.

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We help choose our states electors when we vote for the president

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because wahen we vote for our canidates we are voting for our canidates electors.

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We have to save the electoral college

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because we have to have 270 electoral votes to have a president

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If we got ride of it there would be no president or we would have to come up with an idea related to the electoral college

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Thats why we should keep the elctoral college.

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Dear state senator i really think we should keep the electoral college. I mean look at how far we have come in are lives were we have kept this system working for years and it has not faild us yet

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If we try to change IT now we will probally screw every thing up and it will probally be to confusing because of how the world is today.

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If you look back at the probloms we had in the past we got passed them and came back stronger and improved we really just need new electors and just keep the system the same but get out with the old people and in with the new ones

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This method is a non democratic method also

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this method also cant get any more fair because the people vote who they want and whoever has more votes then they win. whats not fair about that?

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the electoral college avoids the problom of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast. I really think we should keep this method

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America: land of the free, the brave, and millions of proud citizens who live in a country that prides itself on its preservation of human rights and everything else that makes up a proper society. However, in order to remain a fair republic that truly takes into account the opinions of all citizens, we must make one major change.

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The flawed Electoral College must be abolished and replaced with election by popular vote in order to ensure the well being of our country.

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Proponents of the Electoral College would gasp in horror at this suggestion, arguing that their systematic method is virtually foolproof

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Nevertheless, with a voting method as complicated as the Electoral College, the room for error is far too great.

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Just look at what happened in 1960, when racist legislators tried to replace the democtratic electors chosen by popular vote in order to sabotage John F. Kennedy's chances. Then yet another electoral disaster occured in 2000. Both of these events could very easily happen again and the consequences of such mistakes are unfathomable. History has been proven to repeat itself, and this is no exeption. Who's to say that electors won't just ignore the wishes of voters or that legislators won't manipulate the system? When it comes to choosing our leade, whose actions will ultimately decide whether or not America will continue to survive and thrive, it would be a huge mistake to leave this resposibility to one group of individuals. After all, nobody is perfect.

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Furthermore, advocates of the Electoral College make a major fallacy when they claim that voters in swing states are more informed on election information, therefore it's good that the electoral system causes candidates to only focus on them.

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Just consider the fact that by completely ignoring all of the other states, campaigners are ignoring millions of individuals who deserve to have a say in who will be in charge.

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Through this one argument, advocates are essentially assuming anyone who doesn't live in a swing state doesn't care about the election as much and therefore they shouldn't have a say in the matter. This is simply not true.

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In fact, these advocates fail to acknowledge that if voters in other states are not as educated or interested, it is a consequence of the Electoral College. While politicians are focusing all of their time and effort on the 'thoughtful' voters, other citizens don't get the information they need from seeing campaigns and meeting candidates. They are deprived of the opportunity to make an educated decision like swing voters and that is a fault of the college, not the voters themselves.

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If a tie were to occur, the election would be determined by members of the House of Representatives, who do an even poorer job of representing the people considering each state casts only one vote.

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Also, due to the fact that the Electoral College mainly operates with the winner-take-all rule, it is easy for individuals in Democratic or Republican states to feel as if their vote doesn't matter.

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It is also important to note that at the end of the day, election by popular vote accomplishes the goal of reflecting the opinion of the public far better than election by Electoral College.

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The popular vote is a clear statement of voters' opinions and is virtually unable to be tampered with. On the other hand, the Electoral College only complicates the situation by introducing a middle man who is prone to bribery and mistakes. Why should we allow candidates to win because of the electoral vote if they do not recieve the overall approval of the public? Compare the opinions of 538 electors to the opinions of hundreds of millions of voters. Evidently, the opinions of all these voters cannot be properly represented by these 538 electors. It's just impossible both logistically and logically.

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For all of these reasons, I urge you to change the system to election by popular vote.

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Hi my names Kaigen and I am against the idea of self driving vehicles.

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I honestly think it would cause more mayham

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Just think about it, what if a deer runs out in front of your car. I know you are probably thinking they have some fool proof plan to avoid these incidents, but take out that word deer and replace it with a child. Yeah that changes things up a little huh. No matter how fool proof they claim their "self driving" cars are it a bad idea. Things happen, technology fails. Its a part of life. The story even says 'the driver has to take control entering or leaving a driveway', or "if theres road work it needs the driver to take over". This is not ok. What happens when you are going through an intersection and the light turns red? Is the car going to speed up, or stop in the middle of the road. What if you are going through a school zone? Hows the car going to know any different?

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They also said in the article "for this to work it would be espensive"

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In my opinion the last thing we need is to go even further in debt.

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Yes I can see good in this idea, but i beleive the bad over rules the good in this instinse. Just imagine what would happen if a car pulled out in front of you, sure these machines will probably have a pretty good reaction time. But it can not be anywhere close to the reaction time of a frightened parent. Child saftey is the number one thing car manufactures need to be worried about. If they get the "okay" and come out with these i would want to see these flaws adressed before anyone puts a child in the vehicle. I am not saying its a bad idea, heck I even seee a time in the future where a car is driving me around

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I just dont think they have everything figured out yet and i dont think they will have anytime soon. Its reasonable for these to come out on the market, they just need to meet all of the saftey regulations

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I am kaigen, and this is why I'm against a vehicle that can "drive itself". Plain and simple they are not safe and would cost far too much to make safe and reasonable.

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In many cases there is two sides to an arguement. When there is two sides to an arguement it could go either way. In this case the arguement is about the electoral college. What is the electoral college,it is the the process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the consitution as a compromise between election of president by a vote in congress and election of presidentby popular vote of qualilfied citizens.(stated in paragraph 1)

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I believe strongly that we should keep the electoral college,

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beacuse it keeps people from directly voting for a presdient

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keeps everything even and mostlikely fair.

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Most people think that we should get rid of the electoral college,its clearly a state of opinion.

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When you really sit down and think about how most people vote in the Northeast and South they are not the thoughtful voters.

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(said in paragraph 19 line 2 paragraph 4) Take obama for an example, he was the first black presidental canidate and most of the darker skined group of people got excited because for the first time in history a black man could be president,many blacks thought that voting for the black president would mean that they would better respersatition in office,so many blacks and some whites voted for obama to win. Not really paying much attention to what or who they were voting for. Which you could probably figure out that obama won they had the bigger vote. If we are able to keep the electoal college it would mean that wouldnt happen agian because it could go through the electorals they would choose who is best. Dont get me wrong people actually voted for obama anyways ,because of what he stood for but most didn't.

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In reality most people think that the voting is unfair, like what happened with Presidnet Kennedy.

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Kennedy was the stronger, better canidate to be president. I believe that the electors chose right, it may not have been who the people wanted. He was way better then Nixon could ever be. That may have made the people very mad,which led to the assination of President Kennedy. Kenndey changed the country and to this day in my mind, known as one of the best presdidents we ever had. Thanks to the electoral system we had Kennedy elected instead of Nixon,could you just imagine how the country would be today. If Kennedy didnt win,or if Nixon was president just one little thing could change everything. Everything happens for a reason and having the electoral college helps. I know that Nixon has the popular vote but kennedy needed to win for the better of our country,its my state of opinion.

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Most people think that having the electoral college is bad,why? because they believe that the people should be able to vote directly.

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I understand how and why they believe that. When you think about votin directly it would insure the people that whoever they are voting for they would be sure to get thier votes and for sure get the president that they wished to be president.

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I could truley undertsand why and this would work out, but i still strongly believe that this could be the cause to many problems.

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In conclusion,I beleive that we shoudl keep the electoral college becaue he keeps the people for choosing a president direlcetly. If they make a bad chose someone,who knows is the better canidate that they could over rule the peoples vote. So it would all fair in most turns and would possibably helping the country,and many people believe otherwise its truely a state of opinion. You choose who chooses the president.

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Driverless cars are the future of transportation. These types of cars will allow for the easy transportation of people without the need to take accout for human fatigue.

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Increasing technological standards along with the development of new programs are allowing for the development of driverless cars with power and complexity never before seen. While driverless cars have been a reality for mulitple years now, the technology to be able to allow them to function is just now being completed.

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After maunufactures discovered that it would be too costly to devlop smarter roads, the focus shifted to smart cars, cars capable of driving themselves.

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Driverless cars would allow for the development of new transportation infrastructure and an upgrade to the traditional way of driving, as well as being more fuel efficient and more enviromentally friendly.

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Google's own self driving cars have been able to driver over half a million miles without a crash. (Paragraph 2) Here we can see that the technology is there, it just has not been able to be implemented and the law has not caught up to where self driving cars are

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. People would become better connected in a world occupied by self driving cars.

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The reliable and more affordable use of transport that allows for the car to continue driving even after the driver has fallen asleep or become fatigued will allow for people to better communicate and be more easily connected to friends and family. New technology, like the "LIDAR" (Paragraph 4) becoming more readily available to the average consumer and not sitting at a price point well out of the average persons reach allows for the driverless car to become more of a reality.

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Even looking outside of truly driverless cars, cars that used assisted driving features, like cars made by BMW, GM, or Google, are still capable of helping the driver drive in a more safe manner.

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Technology has been developed that allows for the driver to be alerted to a hazerdous situation by vibrating the seats, flashing a light, or finding another way to notify the driver. (Paragraph 7) The technology is present to allow self driving cars to function, it just needs some fine tuning. Cars that have been made by these manufactures "... can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves," (Paragraph 7)

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It is important to understand why driverless cars propose a danger to us, however, because the benefit of an automated car is not gained without risks and challengs.

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Driverless cars, at this very moment, are not capable of dealing with complicated traffic situations or roadblocks, and this is primarily the argument for why these cars should not be allowed on the open road. Other arguments include the reasoning that the enjoyment is being taken out of driving by allowing a computer to do the driving for you. In regards to that, I respond by saying that cars that will have automated features will also be able to be driven. Most are not completely autonomous and will allow for the driver to take control at their leisure.

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In a hypothetical world where the autonomous car drives perfectly in all conditions, the driver would still be able to take control of the car and drive as s/he pleases and continue the drive as they wish it to be driven.

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Some people might see a driverless car as a loss of freedom or a loss of control,

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but a better way to observe the idea of a driverless car is to think of it as a car, just like any other, with a few extra features; and one of those features happens to be that the car is capable of driving itself.

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Another argument not stated in the document was the issue of misuse of the self driving car. A major trajedy in our society is that people would possibly try to use its autonomous abilities to achieve a terrorist goal.

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A driverless car could be used as a weapon for a group not willing to lose their own members in a fight,

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but this is still not a reason to stop the development of new technology.

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We as humans can not let fear stand in our way and give up on our evolutionary duty because we are afraid that someone else will hurt us for it.

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We are required as competent members of an advanced society to continue to devlop this technological marvel and use it for the betterment of mankind. Of course evil will still exist, and it always has and always will. It is important that we continue to develop, to move on in the face of danger and not let fear take hold of us.

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With self driving cars, the possibilities are endless.

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We have the power to travel anywhere and drive anywhere without worrying about fatigue or losing your way. We could leave Chicago one night, get a good nights rest, and wake up in Washington D.C., parked at your hotel. A fully developed automated car society would help to reduce the risk of collisions and would reduce emmissions that are harmful to the enviroment. Advanced technology has become more readily available to the consumer in recent years and allows for the driverless car to be cheaper and easier to produce than ever before when technology that these cars required was but a dream. Driverless cars could allow for a safer society that is more connected with transport that is cheaper and more reliable than that of the traditional car. Greater fuel efficiency and the lower enviromental impacts would promote the development of these cars by companies wishing to see a better world.

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The self driving car is the next step in the automobiles evolution.

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we should not keep the Electoral College and change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States.

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Primarily, the Electoral College is the selection of electors by popular vote to represent their supported party in the official presidential election. There is a total of 538 Electoral College electors and it only takes the majority, 270 votes, to elect the president.

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It is not fair that the general population does not get an independent vote.

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It is not the ordinary people who get to choose the president they want;

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it is dependent upon which party the elector chooses. Voters don't have control over who their electors vote for. As said in the second article, Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 against Bush however, Gore lost the electoral vote resulting in the loss of the presidential election. In the past, there have been voters who refused to vote for their party's candidate and voted for whomever. There is also the concern of a tie in the electoral vote. If that were to happen then there would certainly be no chance that the popular vote would have an impact on the selection of the president because it would now be in the hands of the House of Representatives.

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The Electoral College is unfair to voters; they do not get the final choice as to where their vote goes.

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They are not voting for the presidential candidate they want. The voters are voting for a slate of electors.

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However, there are some benefits to having an Electoral College such as larger states getting more attention from presidential candidates than smaller states and it also avoids Run-Off elections which is when no candidate recieves a majority of the votes.

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State Senator, please realize that this is not fair or justifiable. There may be an upside to the Electoral College, however, it is in my strongest opinion based on factual content that this is not a fair method and it should be abolished. Being empathetic for the ordinary voters of the United States would provide clarity for your opinion on the situation. Imagine if you were a general voter who did not get an official vote in the presidential election; you would feel cheated also. This is why I ask you to strongly consider these legitimate words.

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There are many things up in Mars. Some , well many, that we do not even know about. Now many believe the face on Mars was created my aliens. But, how could it be so?

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Well, because it was not. First of all how could have the aliens created an artifact.

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How they create it as a form of a face. It's not like aliens just have tools laying around and they sculpt when they are bored. It started to form over the years. The way it was forming and the shadows around it just made it look more of a face.

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With all honesty do you not think if NASA was 100% sure this "face" was created by aliens they would've announced it?

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That would have been big proof that aliens do exist. After all scientists have been trying to look for any other life on other planets for over the years. So that just says NASA also sees it as just a natrual landform.

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The face on Mars is became very popular. But not in the scientist type way.

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It has become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film,appeared in books, magazines,radio talk shows, even haunted grocery store checkout likes for 25 years. Peopl seem to find it interesting since they are talking and mentioning it alot. I am thinking they just seem to find it interesting that aliens might have created it.

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I think it is safe to say that the face on Mars is just a natrual landform

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NASA thinks that, so maybe we shoud too. After all they are scientist and part of NASA that knows all this. Later on I know that they will fnd other thing more evidence. People might have something new to believe.

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The president of the United States should be decided by the Electoral College process, not by most popular vote. There are many reasons why we should keep the way we vote the same.

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