text: First, the Electoral College should be changed because it is not the peoples president when voting with the Electoral College.  The people ar evoting for the president, but not really.  They are actually voting for a slate of electors, who then choose what canidate there electoral votes should go to.  The whole point of a democracy is to let the people of the country have a say in who is in charge, but with the Electoral College this is not happening. The people are saying who they want for president but if the slate of electors does not agree, then the votes go the other way.  This was expressed in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" by Bradford Plummer.  In the passage he says, "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for aslate of elctors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas, for insatnce, and wanted to vote for John Kerrry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes."