Dec 01

Electoral College: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies

December 1, 2020
Man rolling the Electoral College ballot boxes onto an elevator. There are many arguments supporting and against keeping the Electoral College; image from Issues & Controversies, which features an article weighing the pro and con arguments surrounding the electoral college

Featured in Issues & Controversies:
ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Should the United States Continue to Use the Electoral College in Presidential Elections?

SUPPORTERS ARGUE
For more than 200 years, the Electoral College has promoted unity and stability in U.S. politics. The system ensures that all Americans, including those living in less populated areas, maintain a voice in government. The United States should preserve the system.

OPPONENTS ARGUE
The Electoral College is an undemocratic system that no longer serves as originally intended. The unequal distribution of electoral votes between states discounts millions of votes. The United States should replace it with a popular vote.

Let your students review the facts and decide for themselves: Should the United States continue to use the Electoral College in presidential elections? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Enhance the debate with the discussion questions, “By the Numbers” data, audio and video content, editorials, and newsfeed that are linked to the article.

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Patrice Keville (she/her) has been Proofreader/Coordinator at Infobase for more than seven years. Previously, she was Online Editor at Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News and an Assistant Editor at the H.W. Wilson Company, where she coedited the Senior High Core Collection and Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Matthew.