The electoral college is the current way that the president of the United State is elected. The electoral college works by each state having a number of electors that are equal to the number of US senators it has plug the number of US Representatives. The problem with electoral college is that you don’t vote for your candidate, but you really are voting for your elector to vote for your candidate.
To learn more about the electoral college, please watch this video.
Lately there has been lots of controversy about the electoral college. There are some people who are saying that the electoral college is unfair. The other option is the popular vote is when your vote goes directly to the president and not to a elector. The problem with the electoral college is that even though that the popular vote wins for, say Obama. The electoral college can be higher than the popular vote, causing, say Hillary Clinton to win. Some people also say that the electoral college could be corrupt because even though you voted for a specific candidate, your elector could vote for someone else. These are the problems of the electoral college, now its up to the government to change our outdated system. I really can’t say it much better than this video:
A fix to this problem could be changing the electoral college system into the popular vote system. This would require a amendement to change the Article 2, Section 1.