If you can't legally be a faithless elector, then there is no point to having an electoral college. Just let the popular vote decide, since that's how the electoral college is obligated to vote anyways.

Electoral College votes aren't distributed by population; they're distributed based on representation in Congress.

So each state receives 2 electors from the Senate even if only a single person lived in them.

But of course the Electoral College should be abolished.

Because in fact, in a truly dystopian scenario, someone could be elected President with only 44 votes in their favor.

That is, if only one person each voted in the 41 states with the least amount of electors (2 people for Maine and Nebraska which split their EVs) and DC, and all voted for the same candidate, that candidate would receive 280 electoral votes.

Even if the other 9 states voted 100% against that candidate, representing ~100 million voters, our system would declare the first candidate the winner.

That’s a decent clarification