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Originally Posted by merrylander
I hate to break this to you but the electoral college was there to elect the Pres and VP simply because the framers of the Constitution did not believe that they could trust the Senators to do an honest job of it. The first proposal was to let the Senators elect Pres and VP. Then when it was decided that both be elected by the people the EC probably should have been disbanded but was not.
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From what I read voter fraud was rampant in those days with ballot boxes being stolen, election officials bribed, about anything you can think of. Just had written ballots so not much way to police the election.
I guess they thought there was some less chance of the electors being dishonest.