The founding fathers feared that a pure democracy might result in unprepared candidates holding high office.
So they created an “electoral college” based on each state appointing qualified delegates to review the election and submit their votes.
Ben Franklin explained… “You have a Republic, if you can keep it!”
Years later, the social media revolution would bring serious disruptions to this Republic’s innovative experiment.
This meant that a control-obsessed political party would now have the communication tools necessary to limit its opponent’s voter access… and could do so state-by-state.
If that party does not like the election outcome, it can also claim widespread voter fraud… and then ask selected key states to modify and resubmit their “electoral college” votes.
This is how one control-obsessed political party can actually bring about an autocracy in the U.S.
You sadly describe a serious flaw in our American governmental system which may lead to its destruction. Depressing.