2016 Postmortem

The EC got all screwed up when they decided to mess with the number of congress critters. The number of representatives in the House started to grow to unmanageable proportions. So they decided to limit the number of them and just distribute them as a function of population. The problem is that some states are guaranteed a representative regardless of how small of a population they have. So the disparity grows as the population distribution continues to skew towards certain regions/states. Coupled with the guarantee that each state gets two senators, it just makes the disparity even greater.

The simplest and most straight forward way to "correct" this would be to disconnect the number of EC electors from their number of congress critters. Modify the system so that the smallest state gets 1 (or 3 or whatever). Then, each state gets a number of electoral votes based upon the proportion of the population relative to that state. So the end result might be that there are 2500 EC votes spread among the 50 states. But it would be a "proportional" spread. Yes, it wouldn't be a perfect spread, but it'd be a whole lot closer to consistent. But it would also maintain the concept that the president should have broad national support, not just in certain areas or demographics.

We'd still have the problem that the Congress has a similarly large disparity because of the House and Senate being heavily biased towards minority states. That, coupled with Gerrymandering would have to be a fight for another day.