[LachlanMinnesota]

So the vote goes conservative by 10,000 votes in three swing states in a close election. All Illinois has to do is steal 30,001 votes to win the election. With the electoral college, they can only steal their own electoral college votes, but the other three swing states still get their own votes, undiluted. This is why the libs don’t want the electoral college. They don’t want the “Stop-loss” on the ability to steal votes.

We also need to restore the practice of have the state legislatures select the state senators, instead of having them directly elected.

Minnesota would have had more conservative senators had this been the case.

[Pearls Before Swine]

So the vote goes conservative by 10,000 votes in three swing states in a close election. All Illinois has to do is steal 30,001 votes to win the election. With the electoral college, they can only steal their own electoral college votes, but the other three swing states still get their own votes, undiluted. This is why the libs don’t want the electoral college. They don’t want the “Stop-loss” on the ability to steal votes.

That's one part of it--the last created vote wins. Recounts over 200 million votes would be endless.

There's another reason, too. Straight popular voting doesn't even the field for large rural areas relative to population centers. It deprives flyover country of representation at the presidential level.