This year’s election was wacky, to say the least. But maybe its wackiness was necessary to bring out the flaws in our current democratic system.

It’s true the current hole-punch ballot system isn’t on the cutting edge of technology. Maybe there should a better, more scientific way of picking the president from the country that put a man on the moon.

The Electoral College isn’t exactly space-age technology either. But it does its job and has been for over 200 years. Only now, when the candidate winning the popular vote doesn’t win the electoral vote (or at least after an initial count and a recount), do we see the flaws in our system.

According to the polls that are regularly flaunted on television nightly, which coincidentally are conducted by the same agencies that created the exit polling fiasco on election night, the majority of the nation feels that the Electoral College is obsolete.

However, doing away with the Electoral College may not be the best idea. Instead, reforming the process would be more effective. Imagine the recount that would be needed in this election if only the popular vote were used. The entire country would need to be recounted. Most likely, several more instances of voter confusion, such as the one in West Palm Beach County, Fla., would be brought up.

The Electoral College should simply be reformed so that the bigger states’ electoral votes are divided, such as Maine already does. Without the Electoral College, candidates would have no reason to visit smaller states or areas where there isn’t a dense population. Instead, the candidates would most likely campaign on both coasts and the Midwest, except for Chicago and the bigger cities, would be ignored.