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Originally Posted by Catfish
So it is like with the EU, any nation (or state in the US) regardless of population or economic value has the same say/vote ?
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No. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. They are distributed by population which is how the number of Representatives is decided. The number of Electors per state is the same as the number of Representatives plus two for the two Senators. So they all count but of course some states have very large populations and some don’t. The problem that those who oppose this arrangment is the winner take all result. Which ever party wins the most House seats in a state gets all of the Electoral votes.
In forty-eight states and D.C., the winner of the plurality of the statewide vote receives all of that state's electors; in Maine and Nebraska, two electors are assigned in this manner and the remaining electors are allocated based on the plurality of votes in each congressional district.