Who here has been purged from voter rolls? Me twice. Once without enough notice to respond.

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11. that's a different question. at least the votes are counted.

and everyone gets to see that large margin of victory for democrats in california or for republicans in wyoming or whatever.

the extra votes are not "nullified" any more than your vote would be "nullified" in a popular vote election where everyone else decides 60-40 one way or the other. just because your vote wasn't the deciding vote doesn't mean it was "nullified". it gets counted and adds to the margin of victory.

i agree that the electoral college system has its drawbacks, though it also has its advantages. in particular, fraud is usually centered around states that are evenly split, rather than hard-core partisan. obviously, there have been problems in florida and ohio, but just imagine how much fraud there would be in texas if we went to a straight popular vote. idaho would start insisting that they had more republican votes than people!