Lol you see that ref ? He tried to throw it again <| sep |> Actually , while people are most definitely more literate , disinformation has never been higher . You only have to look as far as the many funny videos on asking X voters whether they agree with their candidate on Y policy . They do , and then it ' s revealed its the opponents policy . Of course that ' s anecdotal evidence . But it ' s no secret that most people don ' t actually know the actual stances of the people they are voting for . Just what they heard from friends or the skewed view from media . The winner take all system of it is one of its biggest points . Otherwise your just making it less effective . You can keep making it more and more decentralized until your basicslly at the popular vote and there is no effective point of EC . As I said , it was made this way for a reason .