The electoral college

The biggest problem is the winner take all provision of the electoral college. It wasn't designed that way and Maine and Nebraska have proportional. But remember that the electoral college makes the votes of people in less populated states more important. Every state gets 2 votes plus the number of reps. in the House. So California gets 2 (40 million people) and Wyoming (1/2 million people) gets 2. So the college offers some protection against the tyranny of the majority.

	CA	WY
Population	39,144,818	586,107
Electoral Votes	55	3
Popular	711,724	195,369
vote
per elector