Is there a method to which NBC games Tirico gets and which games Michaels calls ? <| sep |> The Senate exists for that reason . The EC exists because some Framers like Hamilton wanted to limit the power of the people in government . They feared uneducated masses falling for a con or a tyrant and ruining the republic , so they wanted learned men to choose the person for the most powerful office . Other Framers , from slave states , liked the EC because it gave slave states more power by including their slave populations in the EC calculations , giving them outsized power over a popular vote system . So basically the EC was created to be undemocratic and to give slave masters more power in the Republic . There can be no argument justifying it . If we accept it as the highly undemocratic structure it is we might as well dispense with the voting altogether and let the electors choose on their own . Otherwise straight popular vote should be a no brainier .