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One Man, One+ Vote

You don't stop the little kid from whining about not being able to play with the big kid by giving the little kid bigger bats, because if you do, you'll end up having to impeach the leader of the free world and spend the better part of the next decade cleaning up the mess he left behind.
We don't need the Electoral College because we have the Senate. Each state gets two Senators, which means that residents of any given State get proportionately higher Senate representation relative to all more populous States. Sounds ass-backward to me, but hey, I don't make the rules.
Ironic as it may seem, the U.S.A, the world's bastion of Democratic processes and principles, there exists an indirect and non-linear relationship amongst the State's between population and representation. Think about it, the smaller a State's population, the greater the per capita Senate voting power of a vote cast in that State, a paradigm that is most clearly demonstrated in WY (pop. 577K) v CA (pop. 40M) wherein a resident of the former has a whopping 70 times the "amount" of Senate representation as a resident of the ladder.
This tangled web of electoral hypocrisy distorts the "one person, one vote" concept which is widely regarded as an indispensable pillar of a Direct Democracy. The U.S. Electoral College further, and more substantially erodes the notion of equal voting rights as it presents the possibility that any Presidential election can be won by the Candidate who receives fewer (possibly substantially fewer) popular votes than his opponent. This is not Direct Democracy, it's at best, a quasi-Indirect Democracy. The Electoral College should be repealed in deference to the Senate advantage which is already afforded to the States.

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