Let's say that all of the population of people over 18 are eligible to vote and do so an election over what color to paint the sky, pink or puple.
Let's say that 51% of voters in Wyoming vote to paint the sky purple, and 51% of adults in Texas do, too.
Electoral rules mean that all of Wyoming's 3 electoral votes are dropped into the purple bucket, along with all 40 of Texas' votes. This seems to be simple majority rule, right?
But wait.
49% of Texans voted for pink.
This means that the 221,638 purple votes of Wyoming effectively canceled the 8,586,712 pink votes in Texas.
Sure, we could divvy it up by proportion: 21 purple votes and 19 pink votes for Texas, plus 2 purple votes and 1 pink vote for Wyoming. But the representational math still doesn't work, because Wyoming's 221,638 purple votes are 2.5% of Texas' 8,937,191 purple votes, but the 2 votes that would be allocated are 10%, so their votes count 4 times as much as Texans.
This is wrong.
This is not representational government.
It's time to rethink the electoral college.
In the meantime, move to Wyoming, and vote!
