None has adopted the elector system.
Direct Election of the President - Our elector system for choosing presidents has several defects.
Yet Democratic electors, stung by losing an election to a Republican who trails Clinton by more than 2.6m votes nationwide, spoke strongly in the interviews in favor of overhauling or throwing out the electoral system.
Even though some states continued to let state legislators choose electors, the system became more democratized, with greater voter input.
Apparently in protest against the electoral college system, an elector from West Virginia, a state that Dukakis had won, chose Bentsen for president and Dukakis for vice president.
Individual states set the rules for these electors; the current system, by most accounts, has worked well.
Under the electoral college system, US presidents are not chosen directly by individual citizens but are voted into office by the 538 electoral college electors who are selected by each state.
With Trump and his supporters hammering the point that the electoral college system is the relevant competition, they cannot escape that the system has two pieces -- voting in the states and, later, the gathering of electors in their state capitals.
Clinton leads President-elect Donald Trump by nearly 800,000 votes nationally with a final count still pending, but Trump won the most electors in the electoral college system that is how the country actually picks its president.
Because the Calvinists had the support of the elector, however, the presbyterian system was established by electoral decree in 1570.
