Why the Electoral College must change.Note: Inherently sexist terms like congressman are used here for brevity and because that is how the founders thought. It should not at all be taken as an indication that I think women do not belong in politics, which is not at all my opinion. How was it designed to work? Here it is in a paragraph: The people of each state choose a number of electors equal to the number of senators plus congressmen allotted to the state. Those electors then meet and among themselves choose a president, not from those running, but from those most fit for the office, running or not. Their votes are then sent to the federal government in secret. The congress then counts the votes and if there is no person with a clear majority then the congress themselves choose among the top 5 finishers.

The why of the design Federalist #68 mentions several aims that the EC was designed to meet. Here they are with how the design meets each one:

The actual decision of who should be …