The US is weird, most countries vote for their leaders through popular vote, and do it just fine. But the US you don't really vote for your leader, you vote for what your state's electors should vote for(though rare, they have the power to vote for whoever they want, regardless of what the people wanted). And with math, if you get just the right states, you can win the election with just 22% of the popular vote at its most extreme. So using math and quirks of the electoral college, abolishing it has a strong case.



Though on the other hand, realistically despite 61% of Americans are in favor in abolishing the Electoral college according to a Gallup poll, despite several proposals to get rid of it, I highly doubt it'd be politically possible to do so. So what is the alternative? At the very least we need to reform our voting system and the electoral college needs to change or be abolished. In the end people vote, not land.

Interestingly we have no constitutional right to vote, mostly because in the beginning only landowning white men can vote, though slowly but surely we extended the right the vote to everyone else with a long struggle. So here's a couple ways we can improve our election system(I got a lot of these ideas from Extra Politics):
1. Abolish(at least) the "winner takes all system" in the Electoral College, so that like Maine and Nebraska, they'd distribute their electoral votes so that being a conservative in California and being a liberal in Mississippi actually matters.
2. Ranked choice voting, again like Maine and Nebraska they basically "rank" their preference for president so they can actually vote their conscience, so say someone ranks a libertarian candidate as their first choice and say a democrat as their second, if the libertarian candidate doesn't get enough votes, it'll get passed on to their second choice, etc. It'll lessen the effect of people being forced to vote for the lesser evil.
3.Restore the Voting Rights Act to its full strength, cause since it's been struck down by the Supreme Court, states have been using it to curb people's right to vote and gerrymander. Though we can go further and make an amendment to make voting a constitutional right, and have minimum standards on every state, to make it easier for people to vote, and have access to voting that means states can't just close a bunch of polling places right before an election.
4. Automatic voter registration at 18, as soon as you turn 18 and eligible to vote, you should get registered period, none of this bs that states often do to make people jump hurdles to vote.
5. Election Day should be a national holiday and must be convenient for all people to vote.
6. Vote-by-mail and the like should be a normal thing, and make it available to anyone who wants it(from what I read, people don't wait for hours to vote in Western Europe)
7. Bipartisan, Universal standards for ballots and districting to combat gerrymandering.
The fact a lot of the GOP has tried to make it harder for people to vote, there's no reason to discourage voting other than to retain power



We also should break the two party system, and establish proportional representation, along with ranked voting so that in essence our congress would be more diverse. The Democratic party realistically is two parties, a liberal party, and a progressive party, and should be represented as such. The Republicans at least split between a Conservative Party and a Nationalistic Party along with the Libertarian and Green Parties realistically as well.

Here's an illustration of what that would look like, at least if it was back in 2016: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ck8pfo9WUAIZnSD.jpg

The US that espouses being a Democratic Republic often falls short in terms of its performance according to a study here:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-co.....research-shows

The current system is fundamentally uneven and we need to level the playing field for everyone. The GOP gets considerably more representation in the Senate despite not having as many votes which is a huge problem in having a free and *fair* election, this illustrates it well: