text: Also, there could always be a tie in the electoral vote. If that were to happen then the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where people in the state would decide on the president. The electoral college is unfair to voters. Candidates spend time on "swing" states and not on the states that they have no chance of winning. According to the Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong article, the electoral college is "unfair, outdated, and irrational."