text: Disastor factors are the best argument againt the electoral college "back in 1960 segragationists in the louisiana legislator 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 )" thers also the fact that "in the same vein and faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for whomever they please"as both sited from source 2 these disastor factors just prove how the electoral college can fail to choose a candidate fairly.