text: This system of voting does not give the voters a direct say as to who they want, but also turns off the interest of voters who should be voting for their country. "Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know that have no chance of winning..." as said by Plumer. People within those states would have no motivation to vote for their president because their potienial president did not come to their state to convince them to vote. The canidates are only focused on getting majority of the electoral votes, and not who the people really want. "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets ddin't get to see a single campaign ad," Plumer had stated. These states lack any information about the potiential ruler of their country just because the canidates are focused on the states that will help them win.