Recently there has been controversy regarding the delegate system of the political parties. Before we get into details, here is how the delegate system works. On the democratic side the delegates are always on a proportional basis and are given roughly one third of delegates for a one third vote, however the republican party is not as fluent and have many different ways to award delegates. So to sum things up, Delegates make the final decision in whom the presidential can will be.

Now that you have a better understanding of how the delegate system works for both political parties, on to the controversy! Recently, some voters are saying that the delegate system is unfair because they believe that voting is somewhat pointless because in the end, the delegates make the final decision regarding the presidential candidate.

“It’s people who are in charge keeping their friends in power,” said Tom Carroll, a common citizen l in response to the delegate system.  “What’s the point of everyone voting if the delegates are going to do what they want?”

This is causing an uproar because voters are claiming that there is biased decisions being made, especially in the republican party. This issue was brought to the media’s attention recently due to the statements made by Donald Trump supporters in Nashville. Supporters accused Republican leaders of trying to fill the delegate slate with people who were anti-Trump.

Despite this, there are still positives to the Delegate System.  Though many see the super delegates as unfair because of their more influencing votes, the super delegates actually offer an educated vote from the years of experience that the high ranking officials have at their disposal.

In conclusion, there are pros and cons about the Delegate system, but no matter how much you hate it, we need to have representatives because people don’t have the time to count  322,762,018+ votes. But besides these differences, this presidential election is going to be an interesting one to watch.

See more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/us/politics/primary-process-is-seen-as-in-conflict-with-democracy.html?_r=1