text: Another problem with the Electoral College is its method of selecting the president, which may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state(Source 3). Knowing their vote will have no effect, the voters have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign that they would have if the president were picked by popular vote(Source 3). If we're not voting for the president, but for the electors who will choose the president, then why are we voting at all? I say that it is our right to be able to choose who our next leader is going to be.