(01-04-2019, 04:01 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(01-04-2019, 03:32 PM)mikesez Wrote: That's incorrect.  Florida gets 29 votes and Wyoming gets 3.  That's not equal.
It was put in place to narrow down a very wide field of candidates to 3 people.
Then the House votes, with each state getting one vote.
So yes, as designed, the states are each supposed to get one vote.
But it doesn't work as designed, and probably never could.
We should try to make it better.

That is perfectly fair because Florida's population is massive compared to Wyoming.

What it stops is an enormous single county from deciding the votes for a whole state

Didn't Maine's 3 votes get split like 2 - 1 or something last election?

"What it stops is an enormous single county from deciding the votes for a whole state."

Does it? How?
Within each state, the presidential election is simply an overall popular vote.  You look at states that have a single really large county, like Washington State, that county (King county in this case) generally picks the winner in their Presidential election.

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