And what if between the election and the day the electoral college met that the Pres and V.P. elect were killed? Or it was disclosed that they had sold themselves to our enemy and fooled the electorate? The real people electors are a backup, and I think we need to keep them.
It's worked for 212 years, and we shouldn't discard it lightly. And I still think fraud would be far more prevalent if we didn't have this system.
I am still sure we won the legal popular vote, meaning one vote per eligible voter, minus felons, minus dead people, minus no shows that a Democrat stuffed a ballot for, minus noncitizens, plus armed forces voting that was interfered with.
If you read the fine print of the media recount in Florida, you find that the only blacks disenfranchised were Republican black voters, and that Republicans cast far more ballots that were disqualified than Democrats
because they had "double votes", meaning the partisans grabbed handfuls of ballots and ran a thin rod through the Gore hole. If already a Gore vote, no problem. If a vote for anyone else, like Bush, then it was disqualified. If the ballot had no vote, the voter feeling neither candidate was appealing, then all of a sudden, it becomes a Gore vote.
I have gobs of information on all the fraud in a lot of other states. No, it would be a Democrat free for all fraud fest if we abolished the Electoral College.