By Howard Fischer
Capital Media Services/East Valley Tribune
Tired of having Arizona ignored every four years, Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday she’s coming around to believing it’s time to scrap the Electoral College.
Brewer said the system where the president is chosen by electors and not the popular vote probably “served its purpose” when it was made part of the original U.S. Constitution.
“But it’s pretty disappointing when you think that just a few states really determine who’s been elected president,” the governor said. “And they get all the attention.”
It comes down to pure numbers.
Each state gets two electoral votes for its senators, plus the number of representatives it has. So Arizona, despite its growing population, gets just 11 — out of 538 nationwide.
