The System of Government by the Whole Population Is Not Democratic

We see numerous ways in which our form of government violates principles like representative democracy, majority rule and one person, one vote, for example. In the last 100 years, presidents have often been elected with significant majorities of the popular vote. The 538 electors in the college are apportioned to the states on the basis of population, which is democratic. But in forty eight the electoral college votes go to candidates on a winner take all basis,. A candidate could win by one vote in each of the 39 least populated states, and washington d c, receiving 40 seven point zero million out of their combined 93 point nine million votes.