Electoral Votes

[Keith Broaders]

The City and County of Los Angeles has a population of nearly 10 million and has 18 Congressional Districts which in more than the total number in 40 different states.

 As a matter of fact there are more voters in Los Angeles County than there are in the combined totals of the states of New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming.

If we abolish the Electoral College the voters in the nine states listed above would be cancelled by the voters from a single county in Southern California.

The California State Legislature is totally dominated by the will of the majority in a single county. When the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the state allow the counties to be represented in the state senate, the ability of the rural counties to block the tyranny of the voters in Los Angeles County.

If the court deemed that all legislative districts within a state had to be based on the principle of one man, one vote, why did the court not demand that the U.S. Senate to be apportioned based on population? The principle of one man one vote should apply in the House of Representatives and in the lower house in the state legislatures, but the principle of equal representation of the states and the counties should be maintained.

[Keith Broaders]