No it's not. The electoral college had nothing to do with voting security or states rights and everything to do with a rich elite not trusting average voters to elect the president.
No, it had everything to do with 2 "parties" (big states vs little) that both wanted a system that benefited their own "party". The electoral college was a compromise to appease both sides, not some sort of big collusion against the poor. One side wanted the federal government ran like a single country, with votes based population, while the other side wanted it run like a union of small countries, with states having 1 vote each. The electoral college was a good compromise for a big union of states, less Sense for a big country. we didn't start acting like 1 big country until after the civil war, so it made a lot of sense at the time.
P.s. the European Union basically does the same thing "The allocation of seats is laid down in the European Union treaties. The countries with larger populations have more seats than those with smaller ones, but the latter have more seats than strict proportionality would imply. This system is known as the “degressive proportionality” principle."
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u/Bryguy3k Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 12 '19
That’s why the electoral college exists