text: Yes a puplic vote does not go direcly to helping a person win but it does help. if there were no elctoral colled a candidat could go to all the hevily populated stae and get all those votes and be puy in to office like that. Just because you are voteing for a slate of electoros doesint mean you are not voting. The publics votes go twored helping choose the electors that vote for the president.