Repeal Electoral College

For a long time, presidential elections have been decided by the electoral college, a group of people in each state which is "supposed" to vote for the people. However, we cannot trust the electoral college properly. While state electors are supposed to vote for what the people decide, they are not required to do so. Furthermore, it does not truly represent the people. This was evident in the 2000 presidential elections when George Bush defeated Al Gore not with the popular vote but with the consent of the electoral college. I propose that we change the system so that the preference of each state's candidate is decided by the people's votes only, not by these electors. The United States could easily increase government openness if it decided it's president by the popular vote. After all, we are not in the 18th century anymore where every decision is brought to Washington by horses. The presidential elections is a people election. The people should have the power to elect their leader, therefore I suggest we abolish the electoral college and decide election by the popular vote. In addition, we would still keep things like the electoral map as means to ease the process of keeping track to whose winning and whose losing.