The US states have an average population of 6.64 million residents each. But each state has two votes in the US Senate. Thus on a one-person, one-vote basis, those states with less than 6.64 million residents have an advantage in every vote cast by the US Senate. Is that fair, democratic, representative, or does it make any sense at all?

For example, California has 53 times as many people as Alaska, yet they each have two votes in the US Senate. California has two Democratic senators, while Alaska has two Republican senators, and that makes California’s Democratic residents greatly under-represented, while Alaska’s Republican residents are hugely over-represented.

“Yes, but”...say the Alaskans, “we have more mountains. And they can’t vote. So we vote for them.”

“True, but we have more sand, and trees, and cars, and homes, and hospitals, and oranges, and highways, along with more lettuce, tomatoes, and grapes that can’t vote either, say the Californians. But who cares? Your population is perfectly represented in your state legislature. And that is how it should be according to the US Supreme Court (in Reynolds v Sims, 1964). Besides, each US Senator has an obligation to vote in the national interest, not just how it could impact those in his or her home state. That is less likely to happen with a population-based Senate.”

“Oh, so you think you’re smarter than our Founding Fathers?” say the Alaskans,

“Except for Thomas Paine, yes,” is a worthy reply. “The Founding Mothers are an entirely different matter.”

This dialogue is typical of the high-school debates heard in the halls of Congress. Truth be told, the entire Electoral System of voting is a biased mess. That is because it was devised to give an advantage to wealthy landowners, who were also slave owners. Today, it continues to be milked for all it’s worth by the ultra-wealthy so they can maintain control over their commercial and financial interests by flexing and adding to their wealth accounts that have soared to more than $100 trillion dollars. They have exploited every crack and crevice in the system to give them an advantage in who is elected, which laws are passed, the issues that are defeated, while they hold those they support accountable to them and obedient to their needs. It is a class-servitude relationship that defies life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to the great majority of Americans and legal residents. It also promotes dynasty-building and continued exorbitant wealth-accumulation to them and their offspring now and in perpetuity. It defies the intentions of those who signed the Declaration of Independence in which they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. That’s the short answer.

Ultimately, the Constitution needs to be changed to eliminate the Electoral System and replaced by a direct vote of the people made as easily, fairly, and as honorably as possible without concern for where voters live, who they work for, their wealth status, or their reading abilities. Those ends can be achieved by the Popular Vote Interstate Compact advocated and organized by the organization known as Abolish the Electoral College. To date 15 states plus DC have signed a pledge, giving them 196 of the 270 votes needed to make the Electoral System irrelevant.

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