Presidential election, 2016

[David Horn]

(12-14-2016, 01:24 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(12-14-2016, 12:56 PM)David Horn Wrote: If this election is not overturned, then I doubt one will ever be.  In other words, the EC is useless as an institution.  Worse, it tilts the power to small states (typically rural) at the expense of the larger ones.  Individual California voters are much less powerful than individual voters from Wyoming.  In fact, each Wyoming elector represents 195 thousand people and each California elector represents 711 thousand, for a ratio of 3.65:1.

Fix the ratios so it's the same for all states. Then maintain it ongoing.

It's simple enough to just eliminate two words in the first sentence of Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution: Senators and.  This reduces the Electoral College to 436, the number of Representatives in the House plus one for the District of Columbia.  It's not perfect, but it's a lot better.