text: Keeping the Electoral College in effect will avoid run-off elections. As shown in Source 1: What Is the Electoral College? It states that the Electoral College consists of 538 electors. It also states that A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. In Source 3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, in paragraph 22, it states that when no canidate wins a majority of the votes it casts a pressure. That pressure can highly effect the presidental election process, which is reduced by the Electoral College.