An extremely important matter was overlooked by groups which tried to get our Constitution amended eight years ago to have our nation`s president elected by popular vote. They did not show how incredibly unequal voters`
power was. Many people have over three times as much power in their vote as other people.
Almost everyone I have talked to about this has this misconception:
”Voters in the states with the largest populations have the most power.”
California has the most electoral votes, but not a share that is equal to its share of people. It has 10.4 percent of our nation`s people but only 8.7 percent of the electoral college votes. Alaska, Wyoming, Vermont, Delaware and Montana have only 1 percent of our nation`s people but 3 percent of the college votes.
A radio talk-show host explained his view of why we keep the electoral college system of electing the president: ”It`s to prevent cities from controlling the election. If we used the popular vote, four of the largest cities-New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit-have enough people to elect the president.” How misinformed and misleading! They have only 6 percent of our population. The 40 largest cities have only 16 percent.
I think we need to call on our U.S. senators to start the ball rolling to give every citizen equal power to elect the president.
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