dotnmarty":3ctskp1q said:
Absolutely! But an extremely hard row to hoe.
Both the U.S. Senate and the electoral college are anti-majoritarian institutions that were probably necessary for the unification of slave states, non-slave states, large states, small states, industrial states and agrarian states into one country. Both institutions also have arguably sound political and philosophical underpinnings. You don't have to be a complete elitist to see the wisdom in some blunting of the popular will. However, the simple math of population distribution and state size disparity today makes these institutions many times more undemocratic than they were originally designed to be. The ideal of "one person, one vote" has become simply laughable. One Wyoming voter has roughly 50 times the clout of one California voter in the US Senate, and roughly 3 times the clout in the electoral college. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population
I hope some reasonable compromise can be reached to ameliorate this untenable situation. I say untenable, because people will eventually rebel against minority rule.
Vote, and do what you can to influence the system to have votes counted more fairly. You know - tweet somebody. That'll gitter dun. Seriously, if you think the electoral college is unfair, let your elected officials know.
