After seeing that California rates a whopping 54 votes and some other entire states being only 3 etc. I was wondering if a balancing should be in order?
For example, anywhere that currently has more than 10 votes should be broken down into voting sections which separates city/urban voting blocks so that it is more representative of all the people in that state, not just the cities overwhelming the wishes of country folk - who are basically disenfranchised by the electoral voting system.
Would this be seen as positive thing in the US? Just thinking out loud.
Off the top of my head there are only two ways that can happen.
The first would be amending the constitution to redefine how electoral votes are apportioned. That would be a difficult thing to do. Lots of amendments are proposed, few succeed.
The second route would be a movement within a state to break it into smaller states. This was attempted in California. I think there was even a successful petition effort to get it put on the ballot for Californians to decide, but a judge ruled against it and it never made it to a vote.
I live (used to) in California when this was attempted. They wanted to break the state up into essentially a northern state (State of Jefferson) and a southern state. Unfortunately, even if the judge didn’t intervene, the population dense areas (Southern California) would vote against it because they are dependent on Northern California water. If Northern California were its own state, they could essentially hold Southern California hostage for water.