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> People in California should not have disproportionate control over people in Wyoming due to their population.

California:

* 1 elector per 721,166 people.

* 1 senator per 19,832,064 people.

Wyoming:

* 1 elector per 194,078 people.

* 1 senator per 291,116 people.

I think you meant people in Wyoming have disproportionate control over people in California.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/electoral-v...

Doesn't work that way. Wyoming has as much power in the Senate as California, even though it's got a lot fewer people. So, effectively, a single Wyoming voter has a lot more power than a single California voter.

In a true democracy, one person's vote would count just as much as another's. That's not the way it works now.

Why are you aggregating people at the state level?

To give rural, conservative voters more voting power. It's pretty much that simple, and it's been that way since the constitution was ratified.

So… to undermine one-person-one-vote and give extra power to some people?

This is a myth, explained in more detail here [0].

[0]https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/section_9.1