text: The most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Because each state only gets one vote, the single representative from Wyoming would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California. Most states have a "winner-take-all" system which could easily throw off the vote and make it swing in the wrong direction and thus, against the voters popular vote. This makes the electoral college irrational.