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CMV: The electoral college is undemocratic in the sense that certain citizens votes are "worth" more than others depending on what state they live in.

Unless I misunderstand, an individual New Yorker's vote is worth less than the vote of someone living in North Dakota because of electoral vote distribution for the state. Even though the state of New York (31) gets more votes than North Dakota (3), the individual Dakotan has more influence over what the state decides because it has a much smaller population. Additionally, the state votes for whoever the majority votes for in their state. This means (again, unless I misunderstand) that someone in Texas who voted for Hillary Clinton had their vote disregarded when Texas voted Trump, and the opposite is obviously true for a Trump-supporting Californian, for example. I do understand the point of the electoral college, but I believe that the electoral college should be second to the popular vote, and not the other way around.

Also, I'm not here because I like arguing, but because I would like to have a little more faith in the system that we have, and I know I could just be misinformed.
Well, go ahead, change my view.

Edit: To everyone saying that the US isn't a democracy but a republic: I know. That argument doesn't explain or fix anything.

Edit 2: To everyone posting new comments - I'm not ignoring you and I'm not afraid of a good debate, I've just been pretty busy and there's so many of them that it's sort of hard to manage. I'll try to read every comment when I can, though. I'm really enjoying the discussions other people are having, too.
gpt
First I'd like to address that winning a state means winning all the electoral votes from that state. The electoral votes are up to the individual states as to how they wish to appropriate those votes. Most states have chosen a "winner takes all" model, but certainly not all of them.

Second is that no one's vote in presidential elections (per the US Constitution) actually matters. It's entirely symbolic. The only votes that matter are the votes of the electoral college delegates. US citizens vote for their delegates, the delegates vote for the president. Most states have chosen to bind their delegates' votes to the popular vote.

Third, the fact that different people in different states have more or less say in the overall vote is entirely the point. This is an equalization effort to make sure that states such as Wyoming can have a voice in politics to defend its interests when going up against California. In a pure democracy, the will of California would win out hundreds of times over, but with the way things are set up in the US Constitution this doesn't happen. This does create a bit of a negative to be sure, but the Constitution was amended to have a representative cap in Congress, and this has caused the difference in voter power to become as wide as it is.