Electing the President by National Popular Vote

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Electing the President by National Popular Vote
Posted on 2/27/2019 at 16:32:26 by Bill Crawford, (14)

"The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" referred to in the article referenced in the below post represents an imperfect attempt at moving towards electing the president by national popular vote, rather than by electoral vote, as currently specified in our constitution.

If the "Interstate Compact" state law stipulated that a state's electoral votes would not go the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes nationally until at least three fourths of the states had adopted the Compact (the number of states required to pass a constitutional amendment) and not just the current requirement that the number of states having a total of 270 electoral votes (the number of electoral votes required to elect a president) adopt the mandate--this, so as to prevent the large states from dominating the final decision on how a President should be elected; this would be a way to elect a President by popular vote without having to amend the U.S. Constitution. (Of course, the amendment of the constitution would be the better way to go.

Also, there are flaws in the current electoral system of electing a president.
For example.
The state of Rhode Island has a population of 1.06 million and a total of 4 electors., whereas the state of California has a population of 39.54 million and a total of 54 electors.
This means that each elector in Rhode Island represents 265,000 voters, whereas each elector in California represents 732,000 voters--or, in other words, a Rhode Island elector has approximately 3 times as much power as a California elector when it comes to casting votes in the electoral college.

P.S. The below article: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/swing-state-margins/) provides an example of some of the problems associated with electoral votes vice popular votes.

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