We are not a democracy; we are a Constitutional Republic composed of 50 separate sovereign states and DC, plus our territories which have no say in electing a president.
The fifty states and the District of Columbia have electors who cast the allotted votes of the state they represent when electing a President. It’s important to vote because the winner of the popular vote in each separate states lets the Electors know how they should cast their votes.
We vote as a democracy when we vote for our state government officials and for the federal members of Congress from our state. We vote as a Representative Republic when we vote for President. We do NOT elect our president; the President is elected by the states. We vote in each state for President & in 48 states the winner gets all the Electoral votes in that state. Only two states, Maine & Nebraska, give the winner in their state the two electoral votes based on their two Senators & one vote for each Congressional District goes to the winner of that district. Maine has two Districts & Nebraska has three so it’s possible for the state loser of the election in that state to get one vote from a less populated district. As far as people crying that the vote of a citizen of CA does not have as much weight as the vote of a citizen of WY, the vote of a person who is a citizen of California has nothing to do with the vote of a person who is a citizen of Wyoming. Each of their votes is only supposed to be equal within their respective states.
We don’t live in a democracy here, it’s a representative republic.
Without the electoral college, the minorities don’t have a say.
Why would anyone not want them to have a say?
Electoral college is excellent as not a couple of populated states have all the say yet all states and people do. Our founders were very smart.
Almost every communist regime either is, or has been called a republic at one time or another. Between that and the hatred towards a free press, i really think the right is pushing for a communist ‘republic’. No western democracy is a republic, sorry. Saying it’s a republic over and over won’t change it.