text: Using the Electoral College to vote is more efficent because of it's aid to advoid run-off elections. As Richard A. Posner states," The Electoral College advoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast." It also can help candidates running for president to advoid going to states that they know whose vote will have no effect. For example, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in California or how Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43% plurality of the popular votes while winning a majority in the electoral college. There isn't even any pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority vote that was cast leading to a clear winner.