text: "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational," says Bradford Plumer, and he couldn't be closer to the truth. The electoral college system does not represent the people of America accurately and is more likely to result in a tie compared to the popular vote. To conclude, source 3 says the electoral college is "a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner