text: Above all, the Electoral College is fair and doesn't spark up as many disputes as popular vote.  Richard A. Posner, author of In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President remarks, "a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible-it happened in 2000- but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote."  It is less likely because the winner-take-all technique even the smallest range of votes turns into a landslide.  "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible, but it is highly unlikely."  Even though the Electoral vote consists of 538 votes there is a possibility of a tie.  The overall vote for each party would both have to equal 269 votes.  Proof shows the Electoral College is fair.