the highest authority in the land was to be (Bailey & Shafritz p. 60); at the same time the fear of the newly formed nation being destroyed by a fanatic could be put to rest because wiser men had the final say.
             200 years later the system is still designed to safeguard against the ignorant capacities of the people. The Electoral College has remained relatively unchanged in form and function since 1787, the year of its formulation. This in itself poses a problem because in 200 years the stakes have changed yet the College has remained the same. A safeguard against a fanatic may still be relevant, but the College as this safeguard has proved flawed in other capacities. These flaws have shed light on the many paths to undemocratic election. The question then is what shall the priorities be? Shall the flaws be addressed or are they acceptable to a system that has effectively prevented the rise of a dictatorship for 200 years? To answer we must first consider the possibility of an unfaithful elector and a numbers flaw of past events that could have occurred as a result of this decisive Electoral College.
             Unfaithful Elector: Under the current processes of the Electoral College, when a member of the general electorate casts a vote for a candidate he is in fact casting a vote for an Electoral College member who is an elector for that candidate. Bound only by tradition this College member is expected to remain faithful to the candidate he has initially agreed to elect. This has not always happened. In past instances Electoral College members have proved to be unfaithful. This unfaithful elector ignores the will of the general electorate and instead selects a candidate other than the one he was expected to elect (McGaughey, p. 81). This unfaithfulness
             summarily defeats all the votes for a candidate in a particular district. In all fairness, it is important to note that instances of unfaithful electors are few and far between, and in fact...