Exitia passed him by , but then turned back , something having caught her eye . I like the helmet . Never was able to get my hands on one that fit me , though . <| sep |> Well alright . The Electoral College is an artifact of a time in which it was impossible to accurately count every single vote in a timely manner and when slave states and free states were caught in a decades long cold war , each grasping desperately for power at the expense of the power of the actual people that live there . Now , almost 300 hundred years later , we can accurately count every single vote in a very timely manner , even moreso with minimal infrastructure spending , the civil war has happened and states don ' t need to have any power at all in the first place . States are nothing but proxies for people . The point of states are to better represent small groups of people based on relative locality but there is no smaller minority than the individual and now we can just measure the individual . The EC dramatically overvalues the vote of rural citizens , dramatically undervalues the vote of urban citizens and completely overwrites the contrarian votes of red voters in blue states and vice versa . The real question for me isn ' t How is it fair that the 12 Wyomingites so handily counterbalance the 1 . 2 billion Californians For me , the real question is How is it fair that almost 4 million Californians voted Trump and almost 4 million Texans voted Clinton but they just don ' t matter ? National popular vote is the only correct answer for a national election . End of story . The EC was a stopgap measure intended to accommodate for an inability to achieve the ideal . Now we can achieve the ideal .