Why We Need a New Election System, Problems with the Electoral System?

The Electoral College is an obsolete institution that undermines the citizens' involvement in government. The idea that a candidate can win the popular vote yet lose the election is ridiculous, and only through a system reliant on a popular vote based on a popular vote can the true will of the citizens of the United States directly effect the choice of their leader.
The Electoral College was drafted with the birth of this country partially to balance power, because slaves in the south were not citizens, and therefore, not allowed to vote. …