text: Another reason as stated by Plumer's article,"Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president." What would happen if there is a tie on the votes the elector gets? Would the elector simply choose one or the other or might not even vote at all. I also believe that it is unfair that each state gets the number of electors based on the population of the state. If California was Republican while Idaho could be for Democrats, then both do not have an equal value because California has more people. Overall, electoral college seems sophisticated but whatever happened to being "plain and simple?".