The elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 produced an Electoral College winner who did not receive the plurality of the nationwide popular vote - that is, the American people did not get the President democracy should have selected.
Due to the way electoral votes are allocated, candidates have a strong incentive to focus their campaigns on "swing" states with many voters, such as Florida, and neglect states such as Texas which do not swing. Due to necessary rounding errors when allocating votes, members of a sparsely populated state effectively accrue more voting power than members of a well-populated state. This increases the electoral power of members of certain states while reducing it for others on an ongoing basis.
We beg our leaders to dissolve this system and let us vote.