text: The first reason That I believe the electoral college should be abolished is because we do not get to directly vote for the president ourselves. The people currently vote not for the president himself, but for a state of electors who will vote for you. The voters can not always control who our electors vote for, so in some cases, our votes may not even be contributing to the election at all. There could even be a possibilty of the candidate winning only by the majority of electoral votes. The popular vote could be completely disreguarded.