text: Certainly, the Electoral College has some flukes.  Using the Electoral College system "your not voting for the president, but for a slate of electors," asserted Bradford Plumer, author of The Indefensible Elecotral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of system are wrong.  Instead of voting directly towards the future president; the citizens are voting for the states electors for that party.  What if it's a tie? "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote," Plumer claimed.  If it's a tie it is no longer up to the people, but it moves on to the House of Representatives and they decide.  In the contrary, both parties select a slate of electors in trust to vote for the nominee and the trust is rarely betrayed.  Also, there hasn't been many times of when the vote comes down to a tie.  Therefore, the Electoral College should not be changed.