Because it balances proportional representation with regional representation while amplifying the significance of differences in the popular vote. It does mean that candidates can win without taking the popular vote, but pretty much the only way to do that is to completely dominate the country geographically. If you eliminated the Electoral College you'd need to find some other way to enfranchise people who live in regions with a low population density, otherwise politicians would just focus all of their campaigning and policies on the major cities.
The technology doesn't exist. There's always some probability of miscounting. User error, bugs/sabotage, cosmic radiation, there's a pretty huge list of things that can go wrong and can't realistically be prevented. That probability of a miscount forms a probability distribution which we use to approximate the margin of error for an election.
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Things the Republicans stole from the 1950s: American exceptionalism, hatred of women, lynching black people.
He hasn't thought that far ahead.
My empire is crumbling, sliding into irrelevance while I wax politic on the internet, using the products of gigantic corporations which I bought on my government salary. No, we must work outside the system for the system is too broken, that's what Jesus would have wanted. Ron Paul 2013.