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Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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The electoral college is good for one thing and one thing only: boosting confidence that election fraud in one place won't impact the result of the election.
Winner takes all was always stupid and needs to be replaced with proportional allocation, preferably with a more direct ratio to the actual population of votes. Basically, everyone doing what Nebraska and Maine do.
It's also really good for making sure that whoever wins the most acres of land gets a huge electoral boost. Because that's important.
what if we make a compromise on the land area, say 3/5?
Is it? The most disproportionate representation in the EC belongs to the people of Delaware, last time I ran the numbers of EC votes per capita.
State population is all that matters. Very small populations still get an EC vote for each Senator, which is the root of the problem.
Delaware has 3 electoral votes and a population of 1.018 million.
Wyoming has 3 electoral votes and a population of 584,000.
Wyoming is almost twice as over-represented as Delaware in the electoral college.
California currently has 54 electoral votes. If CA was as represented in the electoral college as Wyoming is, it would have 200 votes.
So you could argue that both Wyoming and California can claim to be more disproportionately represented by the EC than Delaware.
Ah, Wikipedia makes it really easy to list by per capita representation.
The top 10 in "lowest population per electoral vote":
Lol, wrong. Delaware's surpassed by like 6 other states. Wyoming is the most disproportionally represented per voter.