text: I write this letter to you in favor of removing the electoral college and using a popular vote system to elect a president. One reason is that qualifying citizens don't vote for the president, instead they vote for a slate of electors (Paragraph 10 Sentence 1) who then vote for the president. This process makes it seem useless for the citizens since they can't directly vote for the president. This is a democracy, right? The citizens can't control who their electors vote for most of the time, (Paragraph 10 Sentences 9-10) thus making it much more complex than how it needs to be.