text: Electoral colleges will allow for a certainty of an outcome. The amount of elctoral college votes are 538; this allows for us to see a clear diffrence in the votes for each party, as oppose to a people votes where you have hundreds of millions of people voting making it impossible to see a clear difference unless you have a blow out. The outcome of a tie is possible but according to the third source "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely..." Also most states use a winner-take-all system where the majority of the votes in a state would win the electoral votes of that state providing a voice for the people. This this shows that having electoral votes decide the president is a good idea because it marks a clear winner.