text: That just goes to show one of the extreme amount of problems that the electoral college system has.  As stated in Plumer's passage, one of the biggest problems the electoral college system has is that "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct electioin to the kind we have now."  But, no one can expect them to listen because, you can clearly tell from their system that they don't care about the common voters opinion, but the direct election system does.  In Plumer's article, he loosely states that another thing that can go wrong with the system we have now is the state can possibly cheat and send two slates of electors to Congress.  It has happened before so who says it can't happen again?  "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote."(John Plumer) Having a tie is just another terrible flaw in the awful electoral college system that the United States runs today.