If the Electoral College was to really be designed for fairness

[kennetha]

37. States should not elect the president. The people should

The electoral college was designed to protect slave holding states. The first idea proposed at the constitutional convention for electing the president was by direct popular vote. the southern states objected. They objected because although they were nearly as populated as the free Northern States, many more of their inhabitants were denied the franchise. The Electoral college was chosen as a mechanism to protect the slave-holding, franchise-denying South from the electoral weight that free states, that were also less stingy with the franchise, would otherwise have.

Moreover, the electoral college was never ever conceived as a measure of the popular will. Indeed, there is NO requirement whatsoever in the Constitution
that a state even hold an election among its citizens to choose its electors to the electoral college. It wasn't until 1876 that all states even did so. According to the constitution a state may choose its electors in anyway the state legislature thereof sees fit. In the first several decades after the constitution was enacted, legislatures chose their electors in all sorts of different ways.

Moreover, the electoral college was originally envisioned as a deliberative body of wise men, who, in their wisdom, would see to it that person chosen president would serve the constitution and the national interest. In particular, it was never ever envisioned to be what it has gradually become a mere "vote weighing" system that operates mechanically and non-deliberatively to count the votes of some citizens more than the votes of other citizens.

With the rise of a de facto national plebiscite, we now have come to have a system in which we DO measure the popular will by voting in a de facto national election, but we allow a non-deliberative merely formal mechanism that was never intended to function that way to OVERRIDE the will of the people, as measured by our de facto national election.

It is an utter absurdity.

Did you know that you can actually win as little as 23% of the popular vote and still win the majority of the electoral college? Start with the smallest states, when each one by 1 vote, when enough electoral votes to get you 270 that way. Then the remaining votes will not matter. 23% of the popular vote will suffice to give you the presidency.

Do the experiment starting with the largest states. Win each one by 1 vote until you've won enough to give you electoral college victory. Now you'll need a whopping 27% of the total popular vote to secure you the presidency.

It's an ABSURD system. It ought to be abolished! Period!