Are the European Comission and the European Council "systematically racist" too, since the vote of a Maltese matters more to determine the makeup of these institutions then the vote of a German, and more black people live in Germany then in Malta?
The section on 'handicapping the high-population states' should have included a mention of the Reapportionment Act of 1929, and how that effects the distribution of electoral votes.
As a liberal in Wyoming, there are a few things that are missed here.<p>1) Outside of years with close ratios in the legislative bodies, no one cares about those two votes because they are tiny percentage with large geographic distances. Small groups only really have power when it comes down to tiebreakers.<p>2) in my lifetime the Democratic party abandoned the state, providing little support and due to closed primaries with no national support we have to register as Republicans to have any ability to help prevent a total fringe right wing local and state government that provides a negative feedback loop with this issue.<p>3) The US is a federation of independent states and the rural states were mostly developed due to slavery state fights.<p>4) I am quite sure that gerrymandering has a far larger impact on disenfranchisement and could possibly be addressed with less risk of civil war vs trying to upend the myths of our countries foundation than suggesting we should violate what in mythology is supposed to be a federation of independent states.<p>5) Rural and urban poor have more in common than differences, if either of the major parties realized this and took on a long term effort to demonstrate this they could start to tear down the barriers that were intentionally put in place to divide these groups going back all the way to Bacon's rebellion.<p>Neither party has any interest in this because it would be a long term effort.
So the author doesn't bother to even attempt to list a single benefit of the electoral college? Could at least have given a minimal shred of effort to have a well rounded discussion of the issue.
The American Left:<p>> The most obvious result of this scheme is that individual voters in small-population states tend to have more power in choosing the President than individual voters in high-population states, and that difference can skew an election.<p>The Indian Left:[1]<p>> enlarging the numbers of lawmakers in relation to population growth in a way penalizes those states that have achieved more in terms of slowing down their demographic growth<p>Completely inconsistent, self-serving arguments which basically want to change the electoral system because their side is losing.<p>[1] Equality or Fraternity? Challenges of India’s New Constituency Delimitation (<a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/equality-or-fraternity-challenges-of-indias-new-constituency-delimitation/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/equality-or-fraternity-chall...</a>)