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8a0f40e96c13 | B168CD238CA1 | because state senators are voting for our president and not us . | Claim | Adequate |
c541b6b02ef7 | B168CD238CA1 | As stated by Mr. Bradford Plumer in his article "
The Indefensive Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong
".
" Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of elcetors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas, for instance, a... | Evidence | Adequate |
f903aaa81eb5 | B168CD238CA1 | Also,the Electoral College should be removed from our way of voting; we should change it to election by popular vote for the president of the United States because the electoral college is a disaster waiting to happen | Claim | Adequate |
cb06f6a4b541 | B168CD238CA1 | Mr. Bradford Plumer states in his "
The Indefensive Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong."
"
The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the bigges... | Evidence | Adequate |
73066d444f46 | B168CD238CA1 | The Electoral College should stay our way of voting because with it we avoid run-off elections | Counterclaim | Adequate |
ef21230a32e7 | B168CD238CA1 | Mr. Richard A. Posner states in his article "
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President"
that we avoid run-off elections. "
The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. For example, Nix... | Evidence | Effective |
e9192ec1c1ee | B168CD238CA1 | Also, the Electoral College should stay our way of voting because of majority vote. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
484c1338823f | B168CD238CA1 | The Office of the Federal Register states in their article "
What is the Electoral College?"
in the third paragraph. "
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
ae883cc2782f | B168CD238CA1 | In conclusion, the Electoral College is both good and bad for our voting system. Some systems are wrong and some are right but its a hard decision to make with the Electoral College because its both wrong and right. We dont need no disasters in the voting system we already have enough disaters in the world that we live... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
6fc9423cdaad | B1A87B210C0F | We should keep the Electoral College but should change some of the rules. | Position | Adequate |
a8a37ba8b048 | B1A87B210C0F | We should have a Congress that knows best about what we should do to make our country better. | Claim | Adequate |
39840d3e561f | B1A87B210C0F | They should be wise with age and should know better than to elect someone who is no good for this country. | Evidence | Adequate |
b237b8d4e720 | B1A87B210C0F | The votes should be runned by the people and they should have a say if the person running to be President or Vice President should run at all. | Claim | Ineffective |
8a713a383db4 | B1A87B210C0F | The people have the majority vote, so they should be able to have a say. It does take longer but it is what's right. | Evidence | Ineffective |
30e26532fb1d | B1A87B210C0F | We don't need to get rid of the Congress but we need to be better about who we put in the office to run our beautiful country. | Claim | Adequate |
c8e03b7d34af | B1A87B210C0F | They need to come and show us who they really are. Visit a town and get them your vote. The Electoral College has done some good things in the past but we should change it. The Congress needs to be made up of people who know what is right and which canadite to choose as our President.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
c238678394bc | B1A87B210C0F | If you are going to be in Congress and are voting for a specific party, then you need to stay in that party. | Claim | Ineffective |
4b78c09dc436 | B1A87B210C0F | The canadite is going to feel like you betrayed them after everything they have done for you. Just because your rich doesn't make it okay to betray what's right for this country. "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)" (In Defense of the E... | Evidence | Ineffective |
e73ca7ed37c9 | B1A87B210C0F | Do not get rid of the Electoral College because it helps us who to choose to run our nation. Just make some adjustments and this country will be the best it can be.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2fa22fe79596 | B1E87F6E9C5A | Electoral college is a unfar way to vote for a president | Position | Adequate |
d498f7ae345a | B1E87F6E9C5A | it make the government officals bias to the more popular states such as Flordia or Texas. | Claim | Adequate |
a8986eaaf64c | B1E87F6E9C5A | I think that we should get rid of the electoral college because it make the smaller states feel left out compared to larger states. If the president was elected by the population not by the "Government" how would it change the way the U.S. worked today. | Evidence | Adequate |
02f9f0c25c16 | B1E87F6E9C5A | The text informs me that under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of electors who in turn elect the president. | Claim | Adequate |
c0b9ee6c0044 | B1E87F6E9C5A | In my opinion I think that there should be more than 3 votes or 4 votes for a state to elect a president. If the United States went to a population voting system the elections would be more fair to people that live in the smaller states. | Evidence | Adequate |
b4d3f60c0373 | B1E87F6E9C5A | in 2000 the U.S. presidential race, Al Gore received more individual votes than George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush wont the election, receiving 271 electoral votes the Gore's 266. If the case of Gore losing the election a year later Bush went to war on Iraq.
| Evidence | Adequate |
99d6dd56a125 | B1E87F6E9C5A | If the United States went to a population voting system the percentage of votes would increase dramaticly to cause a honest election. | Claim | Effective |
8fede7ed0cd5 | B1E87F6E9C5A | If the election where to happen next election cycle I think that it would change the way the United States votes. People are fooled by the president when they say "I will lower taxes, Protect the environment, or Stop the wars we are in" I thnk that it's a trick for them to win the votes they need to win. If the populat... | Evidence | Adequate |
30cef57f5d2f | B1E87F6E9C5A | The reason I think that the voting regulations is broken is that smaller states like Rhoad Island is a state that gets 3-10 votes and Claifonia gets 55 votes. If the only thing that make people happy is to be heard by the bigger people in life. If you where a 18 year old kid in a small state trying to make a new produ... | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
3c63cf3e76fd | B1EBAAE6E651 | I believe we should change the election process. You should change it to an election of popular vote and give the people power to decide not on the electors for the candidates, but just on the candidates themselves. | Position | Adequate |
240edbbaaba9 | B1EBAAE6E651 | It would be a much easier process, | Claim | Adequate |
0bef79eceb46 | B1EBAAE6E651 | at the same time, a much less expensive way of electing presidents. | Claim | Adequate |
61697b59d06b | B1EBAAE6E651 | There was a Gallup poll in 2000 that even states that 60% of the population of voters prefered a direct election instead of using the electoral college. That year, Al Gore won the popular vote, but, thanks to the electoral college, he lost the presidency. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f6703e926071 | B1EBAAE6E651 | the electoral college is an unreliable way to elect the president | Claim | Adequate |
d8c40ade4b68 | B1EBAAE6E651 | the people can't know for sure who chose the electors. Anyone could have chosen them!
| Evidence | Adequate |
bdf23f1ef46d | B1EBAAE6E651 | This is why we should change the election process to an election of popular vote and let the people decide on the candidates themselves. It would save money by not having so many people in the electoral college to pay and it would be a much easier and fair process. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
70d433fb7c89 | B211B7A637A9 | Changing the school policy to only letting students attend or play sports is good but bad at the same time | Position | Ineffective |
6354eb7374bf | B211B7A637A9 | it can be good because you should keep up with your school work while your playing sports or other activities. | Claim | Adequate |
14bcfe3b0dcc | B211B7A637A9 | That is the main reason why you are going to school. If you cannot somehow keep up with any of your school work and your getting D' s and F' s then you shouldn't be playing any sports or be in any activities for the week or that period of time. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8065fb02cb6e | B211B7A637A9 | But having as C average and not being able to play sports i think is unreasonable. So having that policy is a good thing. But it can be bad at a certain point because having to have at least a B average is kind of high | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c34645349bbb | B211B7A637A9 | I think at least having a C average is pretty reasonable than having to have a B average. If the policy was having to have at least a B average to play any sports or other activities i wouldn't join any of them. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
7552d77b8993 | B237EA09433F | The Declaration of Independence granted us the right to control our government. Thomas Jefferson once stated, "When a nations government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of its people to abolish it and establish a new government." After viewing the articles Source 1:"What Is the Electoral College?" by... | Lead | Effective |
bc8b0b03c25c | B237EA09433F | To further empower the citizens of the United States the Electoral Colleges should be abolished. | Position | Effective |
7de1ad2100af | B237EA09433F | Throughout our nations history the majority vote has lost due to being outvoted when it comes to Electoral Colleges. Because of the majoity vote losing out to Electoral Colleges, people have come to believe their vote will not matter in the long run | Claim | Effective |
f39b2d9a8754 | B237EA09433F | In Source 2 Plumer declares, "faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate". With this method of selection for our country's president, the vote is never certain. The slate of electors that the people essentially vote for may or may not stick to the original plan. This ties back into ... | Evidence | Effective |
6a446f3a370f | B237EA09433F | Electoral Colleges do not reflect the democratic style of government we have had for hundreds of years | Claim | Effective |
0a0d6584b60b | B237EA09433F | In Source 3 Posner states, "it is the electors who elect the president, not the people". Ever since the United States has been around our lifestyle has been purely democratic. The people are supposed to the empowering body of our government and their voice is the one that should be heard. But since we have the Electora... | Evidence | Effective |
89dd4fe617da | B237EA09433F | On the other hand, Electoral Colleges do have a lack of uncertainty | Counterclaim | Adequate |
2acb3fb90981 | B237EA09433F | As Posner said in Source 3, "the dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible but it's less likey than a dispute over the popular vote". The Electoral College provides the American people with a certainty of outcome. Whenever a state decides where its Electoral votes are going the canidate typicall... | Evidence | Adequate |
d2cad724c126 | B237EA09433F | Although the Electoral College has a few appealing qualities, it is mostly an unfair system for the United States. The colleges should not have the power to decide the president, that should be the people that reside in the country's choice. Thomas Jefferson spoke of the people taking control of their country's governm... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
37723227da0d | B242BB046FED | Driverless cars used to be just a dream. Now that we have the technology to make "driverless cars" there seem to be more and more of a concern as to how these cars could be completely driverless. | Lead | Adequate |
aa8407e66bac | B242BB046FED | I am against driverless cars | Position | Adequate |
f6ce3c622ea6 | B242BB046FED | the cars aren't completely driverless, | Claim | Effective |
05e46f563397 | B242BB046FED | there will have to be new laws made for these vehicles, | Claim | Effective |
82ed54305ef9 | B242BB046FED | there would be confusion for who to blame. | Claim | Effective |
ab47fe2fdcc4 | B242BB046FED | In the article, the author gave examples as to how the cars were given features that'd make them seem driverless. There were, of course, radar features and motion sensors, but at the end of the day the author of the artilce said, "..None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." Now of course they can st... | Evidence | Effective |
4016e6e43fbf | B242BB046FED | In the ninth paragraph the author says, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe...traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This means that the laws now do not include anything regarding driverless cars, basical... | Evidence | Adequate |
ab5fc023e2de | B242BB046FED | In the ninth paragraph of the article, it says, "...even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" There would be too much confusion for the lawmakers and every... | Evidence | Effective |
6bd149132a05 | B242BB046FED | I am against driverless cars because the cars aren't completely driverless, there will have to be new laws made for these vehicles, and there would be confusion for who to blame. The idea of driverless cars is a great idea, indeed, but there would be just too much confusion and conflict regarding these. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
b54d2c4ecf74 | B25D365F5C1C | electrol college is not just a college it is a process, The electoral college is a process that consist of the selection of the electors, it started in the founding fathers established in the constitution as a comprise between election of the president . this means that the electorol college should stay this college ... | Lead | Adequate |
37f2e0d9086d | B25D365F5C1C | i want electoral college to stay | Position | Adequate |
3af813f28200 | B25D365F5C1C | they are good at things for the state | Claim | Ineffective |
203eee0aa4eb | B25D365F5C1C | the electors college plays a big role in our state | Claim | Ineffective |
55ddcf3ef858 | B25D365F5C1C | under the 23 amendment of the constitution , the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and a treated like a state for purpose of the electoral college . this means that because of the electoral college the district of columbia is treated like a state . so electoral college is the reason why some districts are c... | Evidence | Ineffective |
d644a3c5c896 | B25D365F5C1C | u may wonder how the electors work because all u do is see them behind the prsident well the process is hard and they want students who wants to be an elector to get ready on what they are about to get in to . it first start off by the u choosing the president when u choose the president u choose the group of electors ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
9edf02071c8f | B25D365F5C1C | the electors deserve to have a college someone might want to be an elector | Claim | Ineffective |
3ea96073cfad | B25D365F5C1C | it wouldnt be anything with out electors they do more than just stand behind the president they do more they help the president the president we have today wouldnt be able to run for president without a group of electors . and they need a college for someone who wants to be an elector. this college should be honored to... | Evidence | Ineffective |
b216e340bcae | B25D365F5C1C | these are all the reasons why we need the electors program . because they play in a big role of our country and dthey also good for our state and .l so we need these progems to show young student that being an elector is not easy itbis very hard and a long process and we need to show students how the experience is and ... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
7eaeae486ab7 | B27585EF3751 | It has come to my attention the many problems that the Electoral College has. I would like to ask that we change to election by popular vote for the President of the United States. | Lead | Effective |
67b22aa9d1e1 | B27585EF3751 | You see, not only is the Electoral College unfair, but it also creates a lie that tricks everyone into believeing that our President was the one that the majority of America voted for, when that is not always the case. | Position | Effective |
4769544389ee | B27585EF3751 | First off, the fact that the number of electors for each state relies on the number of members in it's Congressional delegation is just illogical. | Claim | Effective |
b339efa902de | B27585EF3751 | lets say Florida has twenty because of its size, and California has fifty. if both states want to vote for someone different, then California is going to win only because of the size and population difference. So really, you aren't voting for the president...you're voting for the electors who will choose the president.... | Evidence | Effective |
d6f35008d199 | B27585EF3751 | An argument can be made against this...that the electors that you give your vote to will be trustworthy and vote for the person that your party wants. | Counterclaim | Effective |
8faccfd7bb66 | B27585EF3751 | How does that give us a say though? For example, as it says in the article, Al Gore was the president that the majority of America voted for in 2000...he was the one that everyone wanted. Yet he lost the presidency because of this form of voting. This is a free country, or so we're told, so we need to be given the righ... | Rebuttal | Effective |
9fe8c9d398fc | B27585EF3751 | Furthermore, the Electoral College system is flawed...there are millions of people in America and yet only 538 votes are counted | Claim | Effective |
b1d8347e67d8 | B27585EF3751 | There is no way to be assured that the person you voted for, or anyone else, was selected. We need to ask ourselves what the best thing is for our country... letting everybody be dissapointed in who was voted for, or seeing that they got what they spent time on going and voting on. This isn't just a captain for a footb... | Evidence | Adequate |
224acd4fd093 | B27585EF3751 | All in all, arguments can be made both ways...for the Electoral College process or against it. The citizens of America deserve the very best person to lead them, and that's exactly who we should get...the one that America votes for. I know that there are more efficient and fair ways to do this, all we need to do is use... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
45168f88dea8 | B286EEAB83F6 | I don't think students of any school should have to do community service if they don't want to. | Position | Adequate |
481b32ac5c3d | B286EEAB83F6 | Community service takes a lot out of the day. | Claim | Adequate |
6ef0dedb7013 | B286EEAB83F6 | What if the students other things to do at home.
Most students at our school play sports after school, and if they are playing spots how are they going to do community service? | Evidence | Adequate |
f91b1735edca | B286EEAB83F6 | I know it is great to help out the community, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
34a83e9c9661 | B286EEAB83F6 | but we should be able to do it when we want to. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
fab33a743f54 | B286EEAB83F6 | I understand that if a student have to have some kind of punishment and have to community service | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b8e1c6b32a2c | B286EEAB83F6 | But I don't think we should have to pick up after other students they should pick up after themselves. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
9ad4e4590ee2 | B286EEAB83F6 | What time does all of this starts? Because some students have to be at home at a certain time. And if we had to do it after we got home from playing sports it would be too dark to see how to do anything. | Evidence | Adequate |
05d41ff9283b | B286EEAB83F6 | I know it is great to help your to but I really don't should have to do communit | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
a08778827a79 | B28B37BFCC03 | The students should be required perform community. This is because, the students will need to know about their community and what goes on. | Position | Adequate |
2f26d69d492f | B28B37BFCC03 | This is also because, helping the community is important, it helps them deal with real-world problems | Claim | Adequate |
79ff730be7b6 | B28B37BFCC03 | help develop skills for them. | Claim | Adequate |
0d3aab0e38d2 | B28B37BFCC03 | It they are the future, they need to have experiences outside of the school. They should help, so they can be the leaders of the future. | Evidence | Adequate |
eb23b1a9dd16 | B28B37BFCC03 | For example, doing community service by baby sitting, they will have experiences on taking care of their own child or children when they have them. With experiences at a young age, they will have known what it is like to take care of they child. | Evidence | Adequate |
c2aa567d1d35 | B28B37BFCC03 | Another example is if the student(s) do community service at a recycling factory, they learn about what is going on in the world and what is the amount of waste humans produce in their country or other counties. Which in turn will lead them to recycle more, which helps the environment and the animals who live there. Th... | Evidence | Effective |
1f79a9cac30a | B28B37BFCC03 | for those who believe that community service is a waste of their time | Counterclaim | Adequate |
947717d8a302 | B28B37BFCC03 | they don't think about others, they think only for themselves. And that can lead to a life of crime, with selfish desires for what others have. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
b8e92efc739e | B28B37BFCC03 | For example, that person could want a necklace that another wants and they ask and the person says no, that person can feel negative desires for that person. That could lead to stealing the item itself, murdering the person and/or their family members, and/or robbing the store where the person got it from because they ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
9004eb1b8cde | B28B37BFCC03 | The reason people should have to perform community service are listed above. And also, this could lead to a terrible community in the future. And nobody would want that. They would want a tight community. And what a tight community needs is community service done. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e3487581ae2f | B29198FD0748 | It has recently come to my attetnion as I study our states voting system, that we as Americans do not have enough word in who we have as our leader. In a plethora amount of documents from the United States, and our Consitution it states all men are creted equal, when in all relaity we are allowing the Electoral College... | Lead | Effective |
695c7053d14b | B29198FD0748 | Not only does the Electoral College have more say in our President, but it alllows the President to only go to states that they feel is nessisary to go to get the vote. | Claim | Effective |
2dbcfde58452 | B29198FD0748 | It also gives less say to the smaller states making the people there feel there vote doesnt count, allowing them to vote for any party. | Claim | Effective |
29e84c51e18f | B29198FD0748 | If we change our voting system we can vote for our leader rather than us voting for the slate of electors, and have the most popular leader of our country be our president.
| Position | Effective |
ad05fc5b4f34 | B29198FD0748 | The first reason i feel we should overthrow the Electoral College is becasue it is discriminating states votes based on there sizes. | Claim | Effective |
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