The Electoral College

As far as The Electoral College goes, I don't necessarily think this is a fair way to elect our president. Some states are represented unfairly and I believe the fairest way to do things is to just use the votes of each individual person. Every person eligible to vote should have equal representation when votes are being tallied. I think this would avoid the process of gerrymandering since each individual person counts. I also think it would give a better representation of what the country really wants and not what the government wants them to do. Since this will probably never happen, they should at least let some states have a more fair representation. Wyoming is a good example of unfair representation. The population of Wyoming is around 500,000 while Texas is around 26,000,000 (according to the US census bureau estimates for 2012). Although there are clearly more people in Texas, the voting power of Wyoming is much stronger. Essentially, some citizens' votes don't even matter. I don't think that is fair to anyone and in my opinion, popular vote should be used.