text: Even though the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non democratic method of selecting a president. There are still at least two good reasons to keep it. One being that it ''restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states only ny populaton lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreeed in the Constituton.'' And the other being that the Electoral college avoids the problem of elections where no candidate receives a mojority of the votes cast.