Trumpscum Won Because An Electoral Vote In Wyoming Is Worth 3 Times As Much As California

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6. Yes

This whole mess is a string of decisions by people who didn't understand the whole system.

The EC was created for several reasons, whose motives aren't all pure. None the less it held two basic concepts underpinning it. 1) The president should be representative of the "whole" nation, not just the more populous regions. So it attempted to ensure that the support would be "distributed" across the country. And 2) that we should have our votes pass through electors in case there was the need to moderate the will of the rabble so to speak.

Unfortunately several subsequent changes have destroyed all of that.

When we limited the House to 535 members, we started the process by which some states have way more representation than others. This is especially true in the EC because of the two senator rule. Since the House is no longer "equally" distributed by population as intended, the minority has way more power than ever expected or intended.

When various states started handcuffing their electors to the results of their state elections, it caused any aspect of "moderation of the rabble" to disappear.

The quickest, and I suggest most likely modification that could be made is to "disconnect" the EC from the congressional representation. In essence, return to the originally intended distribution of representation for the EC. Take the smallest state and they get one EC vote ( or 3 or whatever). Then, based upon population, each state gets a proportionally larger number of electors. We may end up with a total of 2500 electors or whatever, but they will be far more closely aligned with the population than what we have now. Yet, it will also be true that ultimately, one will have to have a truly national support to win. You can just rack up a lot of votes on both coasts and cruise to a victory. You'll need to "win" some states in the middle.

This could be further modified to suggest that the EC votes be divided within states based upon the results in that state. Again, it would help ensure that the EC vote and the popular vote was held more closely. That does tend a bit to undermine the "national" support, but only a bit. What it does do it tend to influence the distribution less on a state level, and more on a population density level. So states that are otherwise "strong red" would lose an EC vote or two because of large urban population centers. In reality, some of the converse would be true as well. The dems would probably lose a significant number of EC votes in California, despite "winning" the state.