• The electoral College was created by the founders to balance power between the largely populated states and the smaller states. The electoral college is comprised of 538 electors, which is the total number of representatives and senators in congress plus 3 electors from Washington D.C. Because of the way that the constitution was written, smaller states benefit from the electoral college as each elector has the same influence on the outcome of the president. Electors from smaller states represent smaller proportions of the national electorate but yield the same influence as large states in the presidential election.

• The reason the Founding Fathers created this was so that large states could not completely overpower the small ones and cause them to do things they don't want to such as regulate the industries that might be specific to those states.

• According to the U.S. Census bureau in 2018 there were 157.6 million registered voters in the U.S that are distributed among the states. The average amount of votes per electoral vote for president in our country is 436,000 people. The average number of votes per electoral votes in Oregon, however, is only 320,439 (these numbers fluctuate yearly because of population changes and changes in voter participation). This means that Oregonian's vote for president has almost twice the power as the average vote in the country.

• Requiring electors from Oregon in the electoral college to vote for the national winner will give large states in the compact such as California and New York even more power than they already have. A current electoral vote in California consists of 508,344. Oregon has 7 electoral votes, while California holds 55. This means that they have about 8 times as much electoral power as we do. California's population, however, is about 10 times as large as us. This means that California would have 25% more power if there was a popular vote.