The Electoral College provides candidates with an easier way to campaign, which allows them to focus on states that count for more electoral votes and put effort in their strategies in order to win those votes and ignore the states who have less representation. Due to each state having a certain amount of electoral votes, based upon the amount of members in the House of Representatives plus two for the state’s Senators it makes it simple to count the votes and makes the need for a recount irrelevant speeding up the results. The Electoral College encourages a two party system by making it difficult for minor parties to win enough popular votes in enough states to win the presidency which helps maintain the two major parties. The Electoral college is meant to represent the vote of the majority, for the electors should be voting for the candidate with the popular vote within that state, but there have been instances in which an elector chose the opposite candidate based on their own personal