text: Although the Electoral Collage sounds simple, there are some problems that occur. "...According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore--thanks to the quirks of the electoral collage-- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (9). "Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (10).