text: Why is it unfair to the voters? Now it's unfair to the voters because of the winner take all system. Candidates don't spend time in states they knoiw they have no chance in winning, so they foucs on the "swing states" In the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't get spoken to by any candidates at all. If anyone has a argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio.