text: I argue against electoral college because of we might call the disaster factor. ''The American people should consider themselves lucky that 200 fiasc was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse.'' The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer. Why should the electors be responsible for choosing while defying the people? Electors would sometimes refuse to vote their party's candidate and cast whomever they please. That is why votes should counted for each indivdual voters.