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Remember that all elections are state elections. Your vote for President is not a vote for President, it is a vote for the allocation of your state's electors. In that, the relevant standard of value is among the other voters in your state, not those in other states, as you are not voting for their electors.
In that, everyone's votes are equal.
Now... your state may have more sway in the EC than another, but that's an issue regarding inequity between the states, not the people. To resolve that issue, given that all states are equal, I would reduce all states to one vote in the EC.
I'm actually thinking about the EC election.
My vote has no sway with regards to picking my states EC delegates because my state will probably never end up having a majority vote in line with mine.
Someone in Ohio's vote, regardless of which way it goes, will have intrinsic value because it's a swing state.
Personally, I'd be adamantly opposed to a one EC vote per state rule because I in no way feel that states are equal. Thus, they should not be represented equally in such matters, especially picking the Leader of the nation.
The value of a state is predicated on it's population, because the intrinsic value of a nation is within the people of that nation.