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You're confusing the electoral college with the Senate. In the electoral college, the states are weighted by population. It's a flawed system, but it's not "each state having an equal say".

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But even then the weighting is _very_ uneven. The number of votes per elector can vary wildly by state, by as much as some small whole multiple. So the “weight” of one vote in one state can be say, four times that of another state.

It’s amazing to me that this can stand and efforts to change never seem to get very far.

My bad, I thought it was massively unbalanced in favor of flyover states vs population centers.

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