For those of you that want to get rid of the EC.
The reason that the EC exists is because we are not one whole country. We are a country with States in it. Not county's. Not districts. But States. What exactly does that mean? In order to understand what that means you have to examine history...
Just a few corrections.
1. Originally, members of the House were elected by popular vote of the citizens of each State. Senator's were chosen by the Legislatures of each State.
2. While you are correct in that each State was to have a say in the election of the President, it was never one voice
one vote. It was always one voice and the number of votes equal to each Senator (2 votes) and each Representative (at least 1 vote) depending on how many Electors each State had. (A minimum of 3 votes, i.e. 2 Senators and 1 Representative).
Other than that, you summarize the idea fairly well.
The people got to elect those who decided their taxes (the House of Representatives). Originally the State Legislatures got to select the Senators who handled declarations of war and monitored diplomacy. The State Electors, chosen by whatever method each Legislature decided, voted on behalf of each State for the President, the Chief Executive of the FEDERAL system of government.
Our nation, despite where so many millennials argue for one person, one vote, was never designed to be a "pure Democracy," because as any student of American history knows...the leaders feared the ever-present dangers behind a Tyranny of the Majority which always eventually accompanies a pure Democracy.
To put it in terms such people might understand. With a Tyranny of the Majority, if most people wanted a "White Power" society (as was evident back during Jim Crow days), there would be no arguments about diversity today because they would never have let anyone immigrate who wasn't ethnically "White."
It is because our Federal system is set up to allow for States to affect the election of the Executive, while the people have control of the Congress, which allows our "United States" to function without constant efforts at secession.
If "small States" were constantly submerged by "big States," we would have frequent revolts and rebellions like any other balkanized nation in history.