text: I do not support the Electoral College because of a lack of a direct link from the public to the election of the president.  Instead of the public voting for the president, they are voting for a group of electors who, in turn, elect the president.  The problem with that is that the group of electors can be anyone not holding the public office.  But just in case of dishonest electors, states hold state conventions to pick the electors.  But even after this, voters still can not control who their state's electors vote for.  Sometimes, electors get confused about who someone voted for and put them down for a candidate different from whom they originally voted for.  Now we could avoid all this trouble if we just did away with Electoral College and had a direct vote for president, and have the election "by the people and for the people" instead of "by the people and for the electors."