text: The certainty of Outcome is a very important principle when it comes to voting. As Richard A. Posner says on his works of the issue " less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." Posner is explaining that dispute over the Electoral College has could but is unlikely compared one of the popular vote. Again as Posner is sourced he states, " A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the the total number of votes-538-is an even number",he goes on to state the unlikely ness of this happening. With popular vote to many risks would be taken.