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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What benefit is there to an electoral democracy instead of a popular vote system? Shouldn't the candidate with the most votes win?
gpt
There's a few things going on.

1) the electoral college system is not working as intended. The popular vote wasn't meant to play a part in the electoral college at all. It certainly wasn't meant the make states all-or-nothing

2) The electoral system was designed the way it was to give the smaller, less urban states slightly more weight per-capita than the more populous urban states. This was part of a compromise to keep the more rural states in the US.

3) The electoral college was supposed to be educated elite of their state that would then choose the leader of the executive branch. This was to hopefully mitigate the possibility of a popular dictator being elected and taking full control of the federal government with the full weight of the uneducated masses behind them.