The electoral college wasn't just created to prevent a tyranny of the majority, it was created to give false weight to slave holding states so that their slave populations would count towards their population totals in compared to northern free states.
What it was really created for was to prevent blacks from voting in their self interest (to free themselves) and to help prevent demographic swings of fleeing blacks to the north from giving the northern states a population/representation boost.
It is working by design now still as a state like Wisconsin which is 92% white and has more electoral representation than say California which is 20% less white.
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