What is unconstitutional is for the federal government to dictate to the states how they will conduct elections.
Right now on Sacramento's KFBK, there's a guy that's filling in for the regular talk host that's the station's go to guy for political analysis. He's griping about CA not having any say in the Presidential election since CA is forced to send more money to D.C. than we get back out of Washington.
He's promoting the same formula that Colorado is voting on that will somehow change all this, that he claims doesn't void the Electoral College, but will still force candidates to come here to campaign.
Sounds to me like a clever way to take advantage of exactly what I quoted you as correctly saying. If this spreads as he proposes we do in two years on our ballot, pretty soon the rural states will have no voice in anything, just as rural cities and counties have been stripped of their representation by the Earl Warren court's "Cows Don't Vote" decision of 45 years ago!!!
Rural America will soon be as powerless as the "Out Back" of Austrailia and the rural resident will have taxation without representation all over again!!!