text: The first reason why i would pick popular votes over the Electoral vote is because electoral votes are anachronism. anachronism means a person or a thing that seems to belong to the past and not to fit in the present. Source3 of the article 'In defense of the Electoral college" states that "The Electoral college is wildely regarded as an "anachronism",a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner.