The Supreme Court did away with it in the 1960s. Baker v. Carr. “One Man One Vote.”
Question: If it’s one man, one vote, then why do we still have the Electoral College on the federal level?
That decision should be the answer to the Left’s dream of the popular vote. Damn near every law, at every level is just a copy of one above it. Some charges require a certain “level of jurisdiction” while others do not.
Georgia has Simple Battery(state charge). Atlanta has Disorderly Conduct(city charge) that has the same exact criminal elements.
So, why not implement an Electoral College procedure just like the ones used for electing the President? The President is the Chief Executive of the USA. A Governor is a Chief Executive of their respective state.
The case that the NC legislature has before SCOTUS, if I’m getting it right, exactly challenges the Baker decision. The Constitution states that the state legislatures make the rules. In NC, the legislature made the rules. Democrats challenged the rules and went to court, where the liberals on the state supreme court sided with the Left, citing the typical discrimination crap. But, if the NC Legislature wins and SCOTUS rules according to what’s written in the Constitution, then neither the courts nor Elias can ever file a lawsuit again, unless they can prove violations of the Voting Rights Act, which I don’t think is easy to do these days.
“.... Question: If it’s one man, one vote, then why do we still have the Electoral College on the federal level? ....”
A Supreme Court ruling can’t undo the Constitution! The Electoral College is in the text. To get rid of it in an obvious fashion would take an amendment. They’ve been whittling away at it but without an amendment the text is always there, and it can be recovered. The ruling by the activist court was aimed at the states who in the Supreme Courts mind (Warren) were discriminating against minorities with this vestige of republicanism.
I agree I think voting for governor ought to be by county. Also, I think state senators should be chosen by county! Some states like WV (55 counties) arguably have too many counties or counties with a very small population. However, that’s the state’s business not the federal government. As long as all county residents have the same free unfettered access to vote the Feds should have no say!
So, for example, Georgia used a "county unit" system in determining who won the Democratic primary (back when everyone was a Democrat).
All 159 counties were classified according to population into one of three categories: urban, town, and rural. Urban counties were the 8 most populous; town counties were the next 30 in population size; and rural counties constituted the remaining 121. Based upon this classification, each county received unit votes in statewide primaries. The urban counties received six unit votes each, the town counties received four unit votes each, and the rural counties received two unit votes each.
The court eventually overturned that because the most populous urban county could have a hundred times more votes than the three smallest counties, yet carry equal weight in the election. Many more states elected one or both houses of their legislature based on town or county lines, rather than with districts of equal population size. These were also overturned, but this did not affect the federal Senate and Electoral College, which were mandated by the federal Constitution.