text: Sincerely: STUDENT_NAMEI argue in favor of changing the election by popular vote for the president of the united states. in source 2 it states "According to a gallup poll in 2000 taken shortly after Al gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost in the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." So, when it comes to voting, i can say that i haven't done it; well, not for the presidential elections atleast, but knowing that when i am able to do so, my vote wouldn't really make a difference when it came down to who actually won the election, well, i'd rather just not vote in the first place. This is america; a free country; a place where we have the right to vote, so the fact that our votes dont really have that much influence on who we want to be the leader of our country, defies the whole idea of democracy.