We live in the United States of America, not The Lone State if America. There are 50 unique states, each with it’s own culture and independent populace. These 50 states are joined together by a Representative Republic, not a Democracy, a distinction that too few people understand. We don’t have a Parliamentary Democracy, and that’s a good thing. Each state has individual rights and representation. The Electoral College is quite literally the sum of that representation. When you vote for POTUS, you are not going to a federal polling station, you are going to a local polling station. The local official responsible for elections tallies votes and sends them up the chain to the State-Level official that ultimately tallies the tallies and delivers the results to their state for ratification. And that’s where those votes stop. There is no legal definition of a National Vote because it doesn’t exist.

From there, the States allocate their representative share of electors per that State’s Laws and Culture to the candidates in numbers equal to the State’s representation in Congress such that no State shall have any more or less influence on the election of the POTUS than the state has on the Legislative Branch. In this way we have balance between Executive influence and Legislative influence.

Subverting this balance by attempting to circumvent the Electoral College would be a direct assault on the very foundation of our country and would diminish the importance of the diversity of the 50 states.