@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:It doesn't prevent people from voting. What is does is anti-democratically WEIGHT people's votes,so some people's votes count more heavily in power than other people's votes, and that is a violation of this country's basic principles.
It's not the Electoral College that is responsible for this weighting, it's the fact that we have too few representatives in the House.
If Wyoming only has enough of a population to justify only one tenth of a representative, they still are awarded an entire representative for themselves.
Increasing the number of representatives so that each representative serves a much smaller slice of the population would remedy this imbalance. California might get ten times as many congressmen to represent them, while Wyoming might still get only one.
Increasing the number of congressmen so that each congressman serves a smaller population base will also have the benefit of making congressmen closer to the people they represent.