text: Also, The Electoral College considers swing states and big states. Plumer writes "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters". This is not true because of the idea of swing states and big states.  Swing States, also known as toss-up states, are the states that pretty much decide the election. They could go either way (Posner). "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senete decreed in the Constitution. " This means that the larger the state (in population, not size), the more their overall vote weighs.