Reply #59: No argument there

[primavera]

Personally, I think we need to do a serious overhaul of our whole electoral system, as it contains a HOST of seriously undemocratic elements, not least of which being the electoral college system, which, as near as I can tell, exists for no other purpose than to grant vastly disproportionate influence to residents of smaller states at the expense of voters from more populous states. Fuck, I read somewhere that the vote of a resident of Rhode Island, for instance, count as much as the votes of SEVEN California voters. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be insensitive to Rhode Islanders, but democracy needs to mean one person, one vote - not one person, seven votes.

All that readily conceded, I still don't think the solution to the problem is for states to unilaterally decide to just disregard the existing rules. The rules are unfair, so states need to put their heads together and change them in ways that make them more fair. Selectively chucking them so that they can individually secure unfair advantages for themselves at the expense of other states isn't the solution.