The EC doesn’t provide balance. It provides a layer of indirection which can be used to game elections. And all of the EC delegates are political hacks, not hon

The EC doesn’t provide balance. It provides a layer of indirection which can be used to game elections. And all of the EC delegates are political hacks, not honest brokers with the country’s best interests at the center of their duties. The “tyranny of the majority” talk about elections is just FUD — direct elections of representatives make the government more responsive to the desires of voters. The EC is a fossil from a time when representatives didn’t trust the average person to vote, but they sure as hell wanted the benefit of the average person in their state counting towards their census tally. Your view, while an accurate representation of the original result of the negotiations of the Founding Fathers, disenfranchises more Republicans in California than there are Republicans in any other state. State lines were mostly arbitrarily chosen and should not matter when choosing the leader who represents all of the states. For the same reason we use the popular vote of the entire jurisdiction to choose the elected officials for Senate and House, the NPVIC is a good compromise to improve the responsiveness of the government to the voters.