Absolutely but The electoral vote was established in the drafting of our constitution...it has been the way we decide on the election of a president ever since....i get it some folks want popular vote to reign...but its just not the law never has been...if you want to change it you must change the constitution...do you want just the states with the largest populations to decide?
Would this not disenfranchise some american citizens from having a vote?
An amendment would correct this artifact of history. Amending the constitution to reflect changes in societal views, such as abolishing slavery and universal suffrage. No other country has this kind of strange way of assigning votes for prez. Just us.
"do you want just the states with the largest populations to decide?"
That is an odd argument. First, why should people living in smaller states have an out sized voice in choosing the prez? Second, this argument is dredged up by -- surprise! -- states with small populations. So, let's look at the underlying assumption:
The electoral college ensures that small state issues do not get overrun by the concerns of larger states.
If the above were true, then wouldn't presidential campaigns focus more on smaller states? That doesn't happen though. Regardless of the Electoral College, smaller states are ignored by presidential campaigns. Campaigns and campaign platforms favor battleground states, not small states. The battleground states -- the ones that affect the outcomes of the elections get most of the attention and pork thrown their way by presidential candidates. Neither California nor North Dakota received much attention during the 2016 election. States like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio did. Those aren't small states.
