A failing grade for the electoral college

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3. If they made the smallest state population equals one representative and not a fixed number in the House, would improve

If you set the smallest state population as one representative will even round up for anything over 0.45 of a whole number

AREA RESIDENT POPULATION (APRIL 1, 2020) Reps earned Rounded reps EC Votes

California 39,538,223 68.54148 69 71
Texas 29,145,505 50.52519 51 53
Florida 21,538,187 37.33752 37 39
New York 20,201,249 35.01987 35 37
Pennsylvania 13,002,700 22.54083 23 25
Illinois 12,812,508 22.21112 22 24
Ohio 11,799,448 20.45493 21 23
Georgia 10,711,908 18.56963 19 21
North Carolina 10,439,388 18.0972 18 20
Michigan 10,077,331 17.46956 18 20
New Jersey 9,288,994 16.10293 16 18
Virginia 8,631,393 14.96295 15 17
Washington 7,705,281 13.35749 13 15
Arizona 7,151,502 12.39749 12 14
Massachusetts 7,029,917 12.18671 12 14
Tennessee 6,910,840 11.98029 12 14
Indiana 6,785,528 11.76305 12 14
Maryland 6,177,224 10.70853 11 13
Missouri 6,154,913 10.66985 11 13
Wisconsin 5,893,718 10.21705 10 12
Colorado 5,773,714 10.00902 10 12
Minnesota 5,706,494 9.892492 10 12
South Carolina 5,118,425 8.873045 9 11
Alabama 5,024,279 8.709838 9 11
Louisiana 4,657,757 8.074454 8 10
Kentucky 4,505,836 7.811092 8 10
Oregon 4,237,256 7.345495 7 9
Oklahoma 3,959,353 6.863736 7 9
Connecticut 3,605,944 6.251084 6 8
Puerto Rico 3,285,874 5.696227 6 8
Utah 3,271,616 5.67151 6 8
Iowa 3,190,369 5.530664 6 8
Nevada 3,104,614 5.382003 5 7
Arkansas 3,011,524 5.220627 5 7
Mississippi 2,961,279 5.133525 5 7
Kansas 2,937,880 5.092962 5 7
New Mexico 2,117,522 3.67083 4 6
Nebraska 1,961,504 3.400365 3 5
Idaho 1,839,106 3.188182 3 5
West Virginia 1,793,716 3.109496 3 5
Hawaii 1,455,271 2.522785 3 5
New Hampshire 1,377,529 2.388015 2 4
Maine 1,362,359 2.361717 2 4
Rhode Island 1,097,379 1.902361 2 4
Montana 1,084,225 1.879558 2 4
Delaware 989,948 1.716124 2 4
South Dakota 886,667 1.537081 2 4
North Dakota 779,094 1.350598 1 3
Alaska 733,391 1.27137 1 3
District of Columbia 689,545 1.195361 1 3
Vermont 643,077 1.114806 1 3
Wyoming 576,851 1 1 3
TOTAL RESIDENT POPULATION, INCLUDING PUERTO RICO 334,735,155
Footnote:
1 Includes the resident population for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, as ascertained by the Twenty-Fourth
Decennial Census under Title 13, United States Code. TOTAL REPS 582 686

Now this includes PR and DC which should get representation. You would end up with 582 reprentatives and 104 senators to get 686 EC votes. So, 50% plus 1 would be 344 EC votes to win.

Would certainly help with the tyranny of the minority that we currenyly have (especially since the Dakotas should nebver have been 2 states. It was one territory with a low population. If it were one state under this formula, it would have 3 representative combined from approximately 1.6 million people and 5 EC votes total -- rather giving it extra Senators.

Although the Maine and Nebraska way of awarding by congressional district and state winner gets the two bonuse for the senators is not a bad option. Of course, gerrymanderung makes that problematic.

Percentage of representatives with the two Senator EC votes as winner take all would be interesting, solution as well. If we want to protect the voice of the small state some without giving them inordinate power.