The Electoral College is an American institution designed to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Since the founders believed the average voter to be dangerous to democratic order, they set in place a system of voting that would allow the public to elect members to represent them and cast their votes for these two offices. Article II Section 1 allowed each voter in the Electoral College to cast two votes for the Presidential seat but this created problems in the election of 1800 when the race ended in a virtual tie. The 12th Amendment eventually revised this clause, stating that every member of the college must cast their vote once for the president and once for the vice president (National Archives and Records Administration). As times have changed, this process has remained the same, though much controversy surrounds this flawed institution. Not until after the elections of 2000, when former Vice President Al Gore lost the overall nomination but won the......
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