Whereas the Supreme Court has held that the conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, to the 15th, 17th, and 19th Amendments can only mean one thing — one person, one vote; ; Whereas the Electoral College is an anti-democratic method of Presidential selection that has permitted the candidate without a majority of the popular vote to become President of the United States on five occasions, including the most recent election, in which Hillary Clinton garnered almost 3 million more votes than Electoral College winner Donald Trump; Whereas the Electoral College lessens the value of votes in the majority of States relative to the value of votes in so-called swing States because a small number of voters in these States can determine the outcome of an election; Whereas a person could be elected President with potentially less than 22 percent of the popular vote, calling into question his or her political legitimacy; Whereas the winner take all basis of the Electoral College discounts the votes of the millions of people who did not vote for the winning candidate in their States; Whereas the Electoral College does not act as a check on unqualified candidates as the Framers of the Constitution intended because it is populated by political party loyalists who do not, and often under State law cannot, exercise independent judgment or who do not even meet to deliberate about who should be President, which is why over time there have been very few faithless electors, and none that have decided an election’s outcome; Whereas the Electoral College does not protect small-population States and rural areas from domination by large-population States and urban areas and instead encourages candidates to bypass the majority of States, whatever their size, to focus their campaign efforts on a very small number of swing States