text: The best argument against the electoral college is called the disaster factor. Americans should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, but the system allows for worse. " Consider that the state legislature are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." In 1960, segregationists in the louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with brand new elecors who would go against John F. Kennedy. Some faithless electors have even refused to vote for their party's candidate and instead they vote for whoever they want.