Letter: How many voters stayed home because the outcome of Electoral College was pre-determined?
Abolish Electoral College;
it’s time for popular vote
The Electoral College must go. At the founding of our great nation, the Electoral College was needed to provide a balance between the states’ representation.
For many presidential elections in the last 50 years, a handful of battleground states have decided the fate of our nation’s direction. We are now at a time where voters in states like California and New York are grossly underrepresented. In two of our last five presidential elections, the loser won the election by barely winning the swing states. This is not one man, one vote.
How many voters stayed home in states like California and West Virginia where the outcome of their Electoral College votes is already determined? If the Electoral College must stay, then the states need to split the votes based on the popular vote. We need our votes to matter again.
Scott Maskell
Pinole
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