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Wyoming's 3 electoral votes cover just over 500,000 people, or about 167,000 per person.
California, with over 35 million people and 53 electoral votes, has a ratio of one EV to nearly 670,000 people.
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This should make any fan of democracy furious.
1 person casting a vote in Wyoming counts as much as 4 people in California.
1 Bush vote cancels out 4 Kerry votes.
1 vote = 4 votes. Understand? It's fucked.
Would it be ok for white peoples votes to count 4 times as much as a black persons vote?
Would it be ok for a mans vote to be worth 400% more than a womans vote?
Then why would it be acceptable to discriminate based on where you live?
We all pay the same federal taxes and federal law applies to us all equally;
so we should all have an equal voice.
Those who try to justify the electoral college with the "pay more attention to us" arguement are just trying to maintain their unfair undemocratic redneck advantage. This is not what our forefathers intended. The system was put into place because of the size of this country and practical voting/transportation issues that modern technology has since resolved. Hundreds of years later it's completely reasonable to bring out government into the 21st century with 1person/1vote + a more representative party system. There's no reason why we can't have similar reforms that other fairer, more modern, democracies have achieved.
1 person, 1 vote, should all count the same.
I don't care where you live; that's the basic foundation of democracy worldwide.