So . Hester from the Scarlet Letter ? <| sep |> You can find plenty of those being blown up in Yemen <| sep |> Consider these maps 1 States visited this campaign 2 Counties with 50 % of the US population 3 States with physical size proportional to their EC count 4 11 states with 270 EC votes . The first map shows the EC winner take all system fails as candidates visit very few states . That needs to change . At first I was a popular vote guy . However , the second map shows that the urban areas are very dense . That runs the risk that candidates again only need to concentrate on a few states . The third map shows that yeah , states with 3 EC votes technically have more per capita , but it still takes a number of them working together to truly have an impact as the larger states . The fourth is just to show that those 11 could , if they wanted , pass laws to award their EC votes based on the national popular vote . The reality is we will have rural and urban . The urban will grow and grow , but that means the needs of the rural get completely forgotten in Presidential campaigns . There should be some merit to the concept of being a state and 3 EC votes at a minimum per state does this . Honestly it could be made more fair , but that takes a bit more to describe . It revolves around senatorial districts being made of 1 to 5 representative districts . There ' ll be 500 representative and 100 senatorial with a minimum of at least 1 senator and 1 rep per state . Mixedmember proportional is made a part of this as is instant runoff voting .