Some electoral college math: Small states way overweighted [View all]

This may well have been covered before and it may be easily intuitive to others but with those 2 extra votes per state for senators, the small states are way overweighted in the electoral college.

For example, California with 38,500,000 people and 55 electoral votes means that each electoral vote = 700,000 people.
In my home state of Iowa we have 3,000,000 people and 6 EVs or one EV for every 500,000 people. That makes a Californian equal to about 2/3rds of an Iowan.

If we go way down to the low population states we see Wyoming with about 580,000 people and 3EVs or 1 EV for every 193,000 people. That makes Wyoming @3.67 times more powerful in the electoral college than California.

I think you get my drift. Electoral college really makes a mockery of 1 man, 1vote democracy concept.