text: 2000 was the the year many people realized the lies of the electoral college. Bradford Plumer, author of The Indefensible Electoral College states that "Al Gore . . . won the popular vote but lost the presidency." This means that the electoral college is cheating the voting system and lying to their voters. So, do your votes even matter? No, not really. "Over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now" said by Plumer. This system we have for voting is basically useless to us and just gives the electoral college more power to run us.