text: One of my reasons is because under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of electors, who in turn elect for the president. The electors can be anyone not holding public office. Depending on the state, the electors are picked by state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, and sometimes the presedential candidates themselves. The electoral college isn't the best way to handle elections because it is the electors who elect the president, not the people, which to me sounds unfair. Voters can't always control who their electors will vote for and voters do get confused sometimes about the electors. So if you really agreed on one president, chances are that might not be the president who's gonna be elected because the electors can choose the other person running for president instead.