The system that our country uses to elect the highest office in the land is antiquated and based within the 13 original states. Our country has grown considerably and become more diverse than that of the first Constitutional Congress. The popular vote is the voice of the people; the electoral college makes no sense and is no longer relevant.
From History.com, "In each presidential election year, a group of candidates for elector is nominated by political parties and other groupings in each state, usually at a state party convention, or by the party state committee. It is these elector-candidates, rather than the presidential and vice presidential nominees, for whom the people vote in the November election..." (http://www.history.com/topics/electoral-college)