text: Second of all, the electoral college always has the chance of the disaster factor. When the states voter doesn't vote for who his is supposed to! Or when the state replaces the voter with someone who will do just that. In article 2 they  have a great example "Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)"(p11) So the disaster factor is always a potential threat which is why the electoral college should be abolished!