(01-27-2020 10:18 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I mean I like that state by state electors provide a firewall against fraud that could steal an election. As it stands now, Democrats in Illinois can stuff the ballot boxes all they want, and it only affects the electoral votes for Illinois. Same in Nebraska or California. And the party liable to be doing the stuffing in those states would probably be getting those electoral votes anyway. But this way, a stuffed ballot box in Massachusetts or Tennessee does not rob voters in Texas or Vermont, as would be the case if the President was elected by popular vote.

Yes, I know electors are not bound, and that is why we saw tearful democrats exhorting them to not vote for Trump and screaming that this is THEIR America
But the electors are pretty honorable people, and I expect nearly all would cast their votes according to the wishes of the people who elected them.

I guess, but there are ways to make the system more reflective of the population without abandoning the electoral college. Have each state's electors allocated based on the percentage of the popular vote in that state (rather than winner take all or dividing by congressional district). Or make it so the number of electors in each state is more proportional to the population of the state (or the number of registered voters). Both more fair than the current system and I have no idea if either of them would have changed any of the recent elections.