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Originally Posted by Bladewire
People's vote value being devalued because they leave where there's no work to a place where there is quite frankly is idiotic and fitting of the 1700's when the electoral college was created.  |
Their vote isn't devalued. California has more electoral college votes than any state in the Union.
The amount of an electoral vote is decided by the population of the State.
Keep in mind that our country is a Union of States. The Federal Govt. wasn't really ever envisioned in the beginning to have the kind of power it does in modern times.
I don't see a problem with a tiny state like Rhode Island having a handful of Electoral Votes while California has 55.
You have to understand...you can't have one state deciding the entire election...which is what would happen if you went straight up popular vote.
In order to do that, you would have to change the entire form of our govt. and ELIMINATE statehood.
Then it would just be one giant country like you are saying.
Problem again would be...nobody's votes would count except California and New York. (Florida and Texas too, but the California vote would always determine the popular win by it's sheer population)