text: Due to past problems in the Electoral College, people can come to a conclusion and say that the popular vote system is more reliable. As mentioned in Source 2, Bradford Plumer says that, "The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse." The Electoral College was to be blamed when in 2000, the electors defied the will of the people. On the contrary, as stated in Source 1, "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." Even the Founding Fathers believed in the vote from the people to elect their leader, but it has shifted away from it.