text: Second, to avoid run off elections. Using the eectoral college we avoid the problem of elections where no candidate receives a majority.  the electoral college can procuce a clear winner rather than pressure when no canidate wins majority and complications of the process. Two examples of this in 1968 and 1992 with president Nixan and president Clinton.  They both had 43 percent pluarlity of popular vote, while winning a majority of elcetoral college.