mail in voting

[BmorePat87]

(06-11-2020, 01:24 AM)hollodero Wrote: But voting per mail is not irresponsible. It's just convenient (and for many it's not even about convenience). I don't quite grasp the point here.

And from what I heard, the EC was founded for it was the late 18th century and transferring voting results wasn't quite that easy back then.

There's a number of reasons for the EC, but you have to understand how it operated when the Constitution was ratified. 

States selected electors to then vote for the President of their choice. Some states didn't even hold elections, the state legislative bodies selected the electors. Some allowed citizens to vote for other citizens to be electors. There was no "winner take all" per state. Elections didn't only take place on one day.

They didn't trust ordinary people.
They couldn't agree on whether Congress should select the President or if the people should
Smaller states wanted a greater influence on the election
Slave states wanted a system where their slave populations could give them more weight