text: Third, some argue that the Electoral College has good intentions, they support their claims with ideas stated in the passage "In Defense of the Electoral College" some such as "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance to large states, the Electoral College requires a presidential canidate to have transregional appeal, or the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate recieves a majority of the votes cast." Although these reasons may be valid, they're not enough to pursuade thousands of U.S citizens that the Electoral College should not be abolished.