*The Electoral College*The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between the election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. According to the electoral procedure originally envisaged by the Constitution, voters had to vote for the two most qualified people without specifying which was preferred to the President and which to the Vice President. The candidate who receives the greatest number of electoral votes, provided the votes of a majority of electors are received, will be president, while the candidate who receives the second greatest number of votes will be vice president. A majority of the electoral votes is needed to win the presidency, along with 270 electoral votes. Each state is entitled to a number of electors equal to the total number of senators and representatives it sends to the United States Congress. Therefore, each state has at least three electors. Each state's allocation of electors is equal to the number of members of the House to which it is entitled plus two senators. There is a big difference between popular and electoral votes. Popular votes are based on population and electoral votes are the states' electors. The candidate who receives the most votes wins all the electoral votes in a state. The other candidates get none. The electoral system was designed by the framers of the American Constitution, who hoped to thereby place responsibility on people whose choice would be...