ELECTORS: On the other hand

Jerry Weaver’s interesting letter on disposing of the electoral college ignores at least two huge realities:

1. The electoral college favors smaller states. Take Wyoming and California. California has 54 times as many people roughly but only 18 times the electoral votes. So it’s the big states that should be squawking. Not the little ones.

2. Gerrymandering guarantees too many congressional seats as uncontested so allotment of electoral votes by congressional district is just as tainted. At least two states have already taken gerrymandering away from the party in power in the state Legislature who also gerrymandered their own “safe” district boundaries. Legislators and congressional districts choose their voters nowadays. Most Americans live in more diverse states than we do.

3. After eliminating voter-picking gerrymandering, why not go back to letting state legislatures choose presidents and even senators like they did before Andrew Jackson? Want a good laugh? Look at the chain of fools (with a few exceptions) from Warren Harding until now. That’s when women started voting too. You can count the scandal or self-made crisis free on one hand it seems.

While voting is vitally important, voting directly for presidents is overrated and incapable of being the people’s true choice. Our two latest nominees are proof!

MIKE RENO

Post Falls