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CMV: The Electoral College is an outdated relic from a Republic over 200 years ago and should be removed.

As said in the title the electoral college is obsolete. With the advent of telecommunication and computers it is much easier to count, record, and report vote results. Why should we give a broken system, which values votes from smaller states, such as Rhode Island, more than bigger states like California and Texas? Getting rid of the college would streamline the election process, make it easier to understand, and give the winner of the actual majority the election. If you watch CGP Grey's The Trouble with the Electoral College on YouTube you can see some pretty impressive voting math that shows you only need roughly 22% of the population to vote for you to win. Why should such a system still exist in what is supposed to be the example of modern democracy?
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I think you pretty much pointed out why we need the Electorial College in your statement above. The college gives a voice to the smaller states and counties and doesn't allow a super majority of lockstep and hivemind. 

Since this isn't a real democracy (It is a democratic republic), it is about representation. You want to make sure everyone is represented in a market where the rural voice might be dismissed because they live with cows and / or hunt in the wilderness.

There is nothing saying the EC has to vote the way the popular vote for their state either. They can indeed vote the way they feel, and there were times in the past where the college went one way and the popular vote went the other.

Finally, digital and electronic votes are not trustworthy on their own. If you listen to the fears of election officials about Russia or other nations hacking into the networks and rigging the election, wouldn't you want a fail-safe to make sure that doesn't happen?

If you were marginalized, wouldn't you want to make sure your vote still mattered?