I really like this proportionality rule being proposed. I can assure you that my vote is ready to be cast in support of this proposition. Although we don't have a direct election of the President (I'm all in favor of that, but it would take a Constitutional amendment), I do think that the voices of thousands of people get drowned out by the winner take all system. Why should all of the votes be cast for one person who wins only by 50% plus one? This is how you end up with a presidential winner who didn't get the most votes.
Well, that plus the electoral college that favors small states. A voter in Wyoming has more power than one from California. Wyoming has 3 votes for 450,000 people (6.667 x 10^-6 votes per person). California has 53 votes for 35,000,000 people (1.514 x 10^-6 votes per person). Doing the math, the voter in Wyoming counts for 4.40 times more than the voter from California. That means that a Californian has to get four other people to vote with him/her in order to be equal to the vote of the person from Wyoming (are they called Wyomingans?) .
It needs to be one person, one vote. That's the fair (and currently un-American) way.
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