text: However, others can argue against the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always," said Bradford Plumer in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong." That being said, sure they can't control that but the elector rarely betrays the trust of the voters, only happening twice in recorded history. The Electoral College is still less likely to cause a problem than popular vote would. If popular vote were to play in hand as a system of choosing the president, then things outside of even politics such as, riots, would get out of hand. "...in the Constitution as  comprimise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens,"as said by the Office of the Federal Register in "What Is the Electoral College?" Either way, voters do get popular vote, and vote for their elector to vote for their chosen President. It is a balanced idea of both a government and citizen based vote for the leader of the country.