text: . This was the single best argument against the electoral college. "The Americans people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century;the system allows for much worse." State legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors. "In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please...." Want that to happen again now?