Another glaring problem with this process is the way in which people living in small states are inherently favored. Each state has the same number of electoral votes as it does members of Congress. Since congressional apportionment in the Senate favors the small states, the electoral college favors the small states. To see how large an impact this has, consider this: California, with 29,760,021 residents, has 54 electoral votes, or about 551,000 people per elector. Wyoming, with 453,588 people, has three electoral votes, or about 152,000 people per elector. This means that a Wyoming resident has 3.6 times the voting power of a Californian. Sixty-five Wyomings could fit in California, meaning that a California scaled in such a way would contribute 195 votes to the electoral college! (Of course, few Californians are willing to move to Wyoming just to have 260 percent more voting power once every four years.)
