Should we change the electoral college from Population to number of actual voters

I'm glad you brought up the Voter ID laws actually. When it comes to the idea of changing the electoral college to the number of voters per state, having these laws can be a huge disadvantage. In history many Southern and more conservative states have always felt they needed to have larger representation, one of the reasons for this was because of the large populations in the Northern states. In the beginning of our nation, this has created the three-fifths act where every slave in the south counted for three-fifths of a person. The South knew they had to increase their political status somehow and although they looked at their slaves as barn animals they still tried to count them off as human (http://www.aaregistry.org...). However in today's political and social atmosphere those opinions are long gone but not the idea of trying to suppress their votes. Were you aware that 31 DMV offices in Alabama will close down? The interesting part about it is that all of these counties are at least 75% black (http://whnt.com...). In the article though it talks about how they only account for less then 5% of all Alabama DMV transactions, so in reality it doesn't give a large effect to the state's overall voting capacity. As of 2014 though, 26.7% of all of Alabama is Black (http://quickfacts.census.gov...). So if they try and suppress the voting rights of 26.7% of the voters in Alabama then they will lose 26.7% of their representation in their electoral college if they completely succeed. You see ,mathematically, changing the Electoral College to the number of voters can also punish the more conservative states for their subtle racist policies. For the sake of it though I would prefer to do some more detailed math. Based on a general poll in 2012, the study has shown that 25% of Black Americans do not have an ID. So if we take that into account of the 26.7% of Alabama, 20.025% of Alabama can still vote but also in the same study 8% of whites do not have an ID as well so 60.904% of Alabama can vote as well. Although the ratio of white to black voters go from 3 to 2 down 3 to 1, the percentage of the state's electoral college votes would actually go down by 12% thus hurting it's political representation. The way I figured the percentage was just adding total population percentage loss from both sides and have gotten a 6% cut from the total number of whites in Alabama but have also gotten the same total 6% cut from the total number of blacks in Alabama, thus giving a total of 12% (http://www.politifact.com...). Now my point is this, we can be a lot more efficient and also referee the states that try and cheat through these laws just by counting the number of votes from each state. The math clearly shows just how we can do that and it has shown Alabama can easily lose an eighth of it's Electoral College votes. When it comes to representation though, a lot of these people are on the fringe of the mainstream American society. Do you believe that drug dealers,hookers,murderers and pedophiles deserve a vote? Why is it that when someone commits a felony the first thing we take away from them is the right to vote? It's because we believe their representation is null and void due to the fact they have caused such harm to society. We like to pretend that we would like to listen to everyone's opinion but would you listen to a pedophile's opinion about the sex offender laws being too harsh? And if we listen to their opinions wouldn't we be infringing on the rights of their victims to not live in fear? You see we already choose who gets to vote and who's opinion matters. I'd like to say I appreciate the debate and it truly was a fun one to discuss. I personally believe having these philosophical debates on politics and geography really is good for your mind. It really does test your strategic thinking to a whole new level and gets you ready for a lot more challenges in life.