text: The electoral colllege is unfair. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 elector votes is required to elect the president. Richard Nixo, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on abolishing the electoral act. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, over sixty percent of voter would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. Voters don't want the popular vote winner to lose the presidency but because of the electoral college it can happen. When you vote for a presidential candidate you are actually voting for a slate of electors.