Actually the electoral college is tasked with protecting the country from a demagogue , aka Trump . Also wasn ' t Trump the one who whined and complained the election was rigged against , the electoral college wasn ' t fair , and he might not accept the results unless he won ? Face it , he ' s on his way out the door on multiple fronts . Not because he ' s Trump which is unacceptable enough as he ' s a bigot and has no place in public office but because there ' s more and more suggestion that he has too many conflicts of interests , there ' s signs of hacking in our election outcome , and he settled a lawsuit that would have found him guilty of two impeachable offenses . And all that aside , even if you ignore how unacceptable Trump is for a job running a popcorn stand let alone the presidency , shouldn ' t we all be ok with election auditing and election integrity ?