text: Based on the amount of eligible voters in the U.S that voted -roughly 1/2- those who vote for an elector are voting for the elector of that most represents how they feel the election should go. Finally the Electoral College avoids the dispute when neither of the top candidates recieve a popular vote, such as Nixon and Clinton in 1968 and 1992. (Paragraph 22) Both of them only received a 43 persent vote but still won through 301 and 370 electoral votes.