text: The electoral college has be are for hundreds of years, but with the age of the system comes problems. In modern times, we have to make slight changes to our government so the United States does not get held back from when the Constitution was first created. Things are meant to change and so is the electoral college because over time thins changes to better and more efficient things. "The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century." This evidence exclaims that there was a problem with the electoral college 15 years ago, which means that it can happen again.