In 45 days you will neither vote for President Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney; no one will!
You will vote to instruct your state’s electors who will vote as a group for a candidate.
The electors may vote for the candidate with the most citizen votes in their state (though some may split proportionally based on popular margins) but are not compelled to do so. Furthermore, not all electors are created equal since the number of state electors is equal to the number of representatives plus two (senators) one California elector represents 678,945 voters while a Wyoming elector represents 189,443 voters so a vote in one state is worth 3.5 times as much as a vote in another.
Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if a candidate wins 51-or 100-percent of a state’s popular votes, he may be given all the electoral votes of that state. Mathematically, if every eligible voter in the country voted; 37 percent of the key voters based their residing state could determine who our next president would be and there is nothing the other 63 percent of us could do about it under the current electoral system.
General elections have nothing to do with one man one vote and targeted campaigning has confirmed that fact. Our president serves all the people and should be elected by at the discretion of all eligible voters. Technology has eliminated the need to send electors on horseback to cast their state’s votes. It is time to stop making the process resemble the back end of those horses.
— Tom Kacena, Berwyn
