Originally it was planned that state legislators would select astate's electors, who would meet and vote independently in theElectoral College, casting votes for two different individuals. Theone with the most votes would become President, the one with thesecond highest total would become Vice President.Some scholars suspect that the nature of the voting was intendednot to produce victors, but rather to narrow the candidates forPresident and Vice-President, to be then chosen by Congress. Moststates adopted a popular vote for electors instead.(As amended by the 12th Amendment, failure of the ElectoralCollege to produce a majority, as opposed to a plurality, wouldhave the House elect the President and the Senate elect the VicePresident. This could have occurred in the election of 1912, whereincumbent Taft won only 8 electoral votes and Theodore Rooseveltfinished second to Wilson. But Wilson had a majority.)