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The Electoral College is the collective name for the electors who choose the president and vice president of the United States. The electoral system was developed by the drafters of the Constitution, to entrust the responsibility to people whose choice would be unaffected by partisan politics. In Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution, the method of selecting electors is delegated to the separate state legislatures. When a voter chooses a candidate in a presidential election …

…do. A few times in the past an elector has not voted the way his state did, but it has never changed the outcome of the election. Because the electors are chosen by the people, every state is represented fairly in the Electoral College. For these reasons, the Electoral College is as effective today as it was two hundred years ago. The president of the United States should never be elected by a popular vote.