Amendment 12

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.[1]

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Amendment 12 was basically designed to make a better procedure of electing the president and vice president. The problem with the old way was that there would always be a tie between parties and nothing would ever get solved. It was also would have who ever got second place as the vice president, this would then cause issues because different parties had to try to work together to run the nation. The new way was is an much easier process and fixed the problems in the old way.

There are starting to be problems with the current electoral college. Some presidents have been elected into office without getting the majority vote (2000). The people are suppose to decide who they want to run the country and it is stupid for someone who didn't get popular vote to take office. This is the way we have been electing offices for 200 years now, a lot has changed since then. Some inventions people might not now about are the car, and the television (with color and sound), the airplane, and many more like computers with internet. I know it all sounds so scary but I believe it's time to use these inventions to make a better electing procedure.



Talking about how 2000 election was messed up.

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/INFORMATION/electcollege_procon.php

This site has a good list of pros and cons about the electoral college and the way it operates in the US.