It seems that as more and more time passes, my appreciation for the ingenuity of our Founding Fathers increases.

I’m writing this before I knew the outcome of the election. I sit behind a “veil of ignorance,” with no foreknowledge of who will win the popular vote and who will win in the Electoral College.

We have a growing movement to replace the Electoral College with a winner-take-all National Popular Vote. This is advocated by some influential voices on both sides of the political spectrum.

But there are so many reasons why the unique presidential voting system is so important to our republic. And fortunately, we are a republic – not a majority/mob-controlled “democracy.”

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So here’s a quick civics lesson on the wisdom of the Electoral College.

First and foremost: we are a confederation of states. The power of the federal government comes from the states and the people. Washington is not the center of the universe. The power is distributed across the entire country in America. New York and Washington don’t rule our country – even if they think they do.

The Electoral College awards power to each state and guarantees the primacy of the states. It is crucial to our system of federalism. America is unique in the world in our system of checks and balances, decentralized government power, and protection of minority rights.

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Without the Electoral College, eight to ten major states would determine the elections. California has a larger population than nine small states combined. But California, for all its virtues, is far from representative of our diverse country.

Could a candidate care about voters in Nebraska or New Hampshire or Nevada or Maine or Alaska or Iowa, since California has more voters than all of them combined? They wouldn’t even bother ever going to those states and would instead chase every last vote from Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago and the Bronx.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – OCTOBER 15: Signs direct people where to go to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting at Atlanta Metropolitan State College on October 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Early voting will take place from October 15 through November 1, leading up to Election Day on November 5. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images) (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Second, the Electoral College dramatically limits voter fraud. The incentive to participate in massive illegal voting schemes in the big cities (red and blue) would be enormous and impossible to control. On election day, the cemeteries would be full of voters. Under current election rules, the proceeds from filling ballot boxes in deep red and deep blue areas are limited. But under a National Popular Vote, even a few hundred thousand illegal ballots in major cities would result in every voter in North and South Dakota being completely disenfranchised.

Stolen elections could become the rule, not the exception.

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Some complain that the system is anti-democratic because we have had elections where the candidate who wins the popular vote does not win the election. I would argue that these incidental outcomes make the Electoral College all the more indispensable to keeping our country intact. The system is not perfect and the risks of ‘faithless voters’ who could change the election outcome must be addressed.

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But just like in tennis, where the player who wins the most points doesn’t always win the match, current voting rules help protect, not undermine, our democracy.

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