text: The people trust the elector's to vote for their nominee. And that trust can even be broken, so they're not 100% reliable. "-state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilties are...." (Source 1). There's a chance that your vote might not even count. The Electoral College method may turn off voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. So even if that candidate got a lot of votes in one state the Electoral College can still eliminate that candidate regardless of the people's votes. "Most states have a 'winner-take-all' system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." (Source 1). The winner-take-all system is unfair because candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, so they focus only on the tight races in the "swing" states. Which makes smaller states feel so irrelevant. They know their vote will have no effect because they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign.