Maybe I misunderstand, but how is this ultimately different from the popular vote?
Sorry for the oh-so-tardy reply...
My notion differs from the ‘popular vote’ by giving voice back to EACH Congressional district.
For example, In Ohio (my home state), the populations of Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus presently control the vote of the entire state’s Electoral Votes.
In a model as I propose, each Congressional district controls the EV it represents, and the population concentrations don’t carry the overwhelming impact that they do, at present. My district, here in south central Ohio, has the same voice as the district that is Columbus, which is clearly NOT the case in today’s model (winner take all).
Regarding a strict democracy model, using popular vote as the mode of casting/counting ballots, it’s the opposite. On a national scale, and given the general 55-45 types of national elections we’ve come to see as ‘normal’, the population centers of the nation would control the entire national political landscape; New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Philadelphia would hold sway in EVERY national election.