text: Secondly, Having an Electoral College avoids run-off elections, where the problem is cause by each canidate that is running to not get any of the majority of the votes. To put it in more simple terms, In some cases there have been ties by the popular vote, or very close ties. In The same article as mentioned in the above paragraph provided the example of one time that this has happened. " Nixon and Clinton both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority of the Electoral College." The Electoral Colege breaks the tie in the poular votes because they reduce the pressure of having run-off elections. The states have a "winner-take-all" system, so that when the elections come, the president of those who are voting for him in the electoral college get to be with that president. The larger states recieve more attention from the canidates, so the popular vote getting tied up also does not happen very often.