n to the educated and the elite.
This system can be seen as flawed because, as seen on four occasions, the people voted, for example, for candidate ‘x’, while the electoral college voted for candidate ‘y’, and candidate ‘y’ one. The first time this happened was in 1824 for the John Quincy Adams and the Andrew Jackson election. Jackson received 151,271 popular votes while Adams only received 113,122. Jackson one the electoral votes winning 99 votes to 84. Because Jackson did not win the majority in the Electoral College the decision went the
House of Representatives that decided Adams will be president ("U. S. Electoral College: Historical Election Results 1789-1996"). A more recent example is in 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote by about 540,000 votes but Bush won the electoral vote and won the election becoming the 43rd president ("U. S. Electoral College").
Although, the Electoral College may make it seem like your vote doesn’t count, it is still extremely important that everyone...