- Yes, it is time, and has been for the past few decades or longer, to amend the Constitution and institute the election of President by popular vote.
- Yes, that means to cancel/delete the Electoral College!
- A person can be elected President without getting the highest number of votes.
- People living in states with smaller populations have more powerful votes, because the state's delegates are the sum of its congressmen and two senators. So if you calculate how many potential voters per delegate in each state you will see that New York and California there are many more citizens per delegate than Nevada or Colorado.
|USA Electoral College System|
As I had been taught, way back when, the principle of democracy is that each vote has the same weight. All citizens are supposed to be equal. I don't see how this is possible with the system as it now stands.