text: The soncond reason is that electoral votes might chose the wrong person to run in office. source3 part five of the article "Indefense of the electoral college" states that,"it can be argued that the Electoral college method of selecting the presidedent may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote."