text: The argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky, because the two thousand fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. They was lucky that happen , consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Perhaps the most worrying thin is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.