mmh , sounds more like stop playing , bring home more money ! <| sep |> You realize you can still vote without the EC , right ? It ' s not screw you for producing food . It ' s your vote doesn ' t count more just because you ' re a minority of the population . There are plenty of other minorities who feel disenfranchised in a democracy , but I don ' t think I ' ve seen any of them arguing that their votes should count more than other peoples '. Ignore this election for a moment and look to every election where the popular vote and the electoral vote matched . There are plenty of examples where candidates who were popular in rural states won . All except 5 would have been the same without the E . C . , so it ' s not like the E . C . is the only thing keeping the country from being controlled by people in large cities .