Time to get rid of the electoral college system

The justification I’ve read for retaining the EC system is that it helps less populous states compete with more populous states.

WTF?

 

I support a system of one person-one vote. I don’t support a system of one acre-one vote. The EC system means a vote in, say, Wyoming, counts more than a vote in California. How is that fair or even logical? Citizens vote, not real estate.

“Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states. A close election in Arizona or Pennsylvania would no longer provide leverage for upending the national result.

“Any election system that does not rely on states as the puzzle pieces for deciding elections would remove opportunities like these. It could also seriously reduce disputes over recounts and suspicion about late-night ballot counts, long lines and malfunctioning voting machines because those local concerns would be swamped by the national vote totals.

 

“Although not without its own concerns, an agreement among the states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote is probably the most viable method for shifting to the popular vote, in part because it does not require passing an amendment to the Constitution.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/an-unseen-problem-with-the-electoral-college-it-tells-bad-guys-where-to-target-their-efforts