Reply #7: Even were we to get an amendment to assure right to vote for electors, ...

[damntexdem]

we'll never get rid of the Electoral College and electors because the system gives disproportionate power to smaller states; and those that so benefit account for more than 12 states -- so can prevent passage of an amendment doing away with the EC. What CAN work, however, is the current effort of larger states to create a compact to vote their electoral votes for the prez candidate who gets the most votes nationally, to go into effect once sufficient states have joined to constitute a majority of the EC. This would not do away totally with the undemocratic EC, nor the disproportionate power of smaller states, but it would go far toward democratizing prez elections.