text: Although these reasons state that switching the electoral college is a good idea, there are some benefits of it being there. In source 3: "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" the author Richard A. Posner states "The electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..."(paragraph 21).This states that despite the fact that not a lot of people like the electoral collage they help balance the votes of the states and help continue the rights of the Constitution. This helps with th popular vote of the states and gets the most attention than smaller states. On the other hand, even though the electoral college evens the votes of the oublic, what if they choose the other candidate then the one that the public chose? It wouldnt be fair not only to the state but the other people who choose that candidate and the candidate him or herself.