Electoral College

If the electoral votes were apportioned evenly (x population = y electoral votes) I could accept this system. But as it stands this system gives much more weight to votes in places like Wyoming than places like California. Currently Wyoming gets 1 electoral college vote for every 194,717 citizens and California gets 1 electoral college vote for every 705,454 citizens. If Wyoming had to meet the standard California is held to it would not even merit 1 electoral college vote. And by contrast, if California received an electoral college vote for every 194,717 citizens it would have 199 electoral college votes. This system also makes your votes in certain states null and void (at least at the presidential level). If you live in California and vote for a republican presidential candidate your vote counts for nothing. If you live in Mississippi and vote for a democrat presidential candidate your vote means nothing. Of course if you live in Mississippi you have many more problems than just that. We already have laws that protect the rights of the minority (the bill of rights comes to mind as one example) we need to go by the popular vote or apportion the electoral college votes so every vote counts equally.