Electoral College Reform

The first and most logical way to improve the structure of our government is the electoral college. How can it be that in two of the past five elections the so called winner has also lost the popular vote. This makes this a common occurrence, and with the demographic changes of the concentration of Democrats in cities and Republicans in rural areas make something like this very likely to happen again. The current system favors rural voters and therefore the Republican party as well by boosting the quality of votes from states with smaller populations. A vote in Wyoming is worth almost four time as much as a vote in California. This discriminates against urban voters and lets a minority set the national agenda. By this principle it can be argued that the United States of America is a minority rule country. However, setting a one vote per person method of electing our president would do quite the opposite and oppress the rural voter. We're too big of a country to have a system that works well in smaller more densely populated nations such as France. In addition, an elector is not required by federal law to vote for the same candidate their state voted for, which could flip the ultimate outcome in a close election. The founding fathers designed the electoral college to be a check on the common man's power to rule. That is not the desire of America currently, as we have strived to become more democratic. A good example of this is the 19th amendment of the constitution. So, the next step is to force electors to vote the same as their state. Another issue with the current system is that the only Americans that can't vote are the ones living in American territories. They deserve to choose their president but, they should not have too much influence since they have not achieved statehood.

My Plan:

Step 1: Each state's number of electors will be determined solely by their number of representatives in the House of Representatives. 

This would solve the state inequality issue when voting for President. This issue is almost exclusively caused by the senators in a state's elector count. Eliminating the senators would make each state's vote be worth the same.

Step 2: Each federal district, territory, or commonwealth (District of Colombia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands,  and American Samoa) will be given one elector each.
This would make sure that all Americans have the ability to vote while not giving these territories too much power since they are not states.

Step 3: 97 electors will be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote.
This will make the popular vote matter, and it would prevent a scenario in which a candidate loses but wins the popular vote. As this may be and arguably is a common occurrence, it is necessary to prevent for the future. The number 97 was chosen to keep 538 as the total number of electors.

Step 4: All electors must vote for the same candidate as the state, country, or territory is representing.
This prevents a situation where faithless electors change the result of a election.

My plan would prevent the United States of America from further falling into a minority rule country. So it is necessary for the changes stated above or ones similar to it to go into effect to keep our country a full democracy.

To see some examples of how my plan would change the result of some of the closest modern elections or if you need a visual on how my plan changes the electoral college click here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MOIvWTu3yhZ6jSVb8aIPbDgpLo_GejE8uJFrMCt7B90/edit?usp=sharing