“States have the right to award their electoral votes in any manner they (the state government) decides.”
What if the state legislature decides to cast its electoral votes only for the democrat candidate, regardless of the popular vote?
They are free to do that as well... but it will likely be challenged in the courts... and those pols who pushed for that patently unfair system will likely be voted out of office, and the nonsense policy reversed anyway.
At least, that's if We the People are doing our jobs... but we are getting worse at that every passing cycle.
The people elect the state government. If they put in a government which will do that, then they already did decide to elect the Democrat.
If people do not engage in State Level politics then they have to a great degree ceded contol of Federal politics to those who are engaged.
Why are you attempting to assert that the consequence for irresponsibility and laziness equates to a systemic level flaw?