Are we not a Republic? And the Electoral College was put specifically into place so as to avoid devolving us into a Democracy?
The US at the time was a slaveowning nation for which voting rights could only be held by white, male, landowning gentry... so yes.
The 5 most populous counties have less than 10% of the US population.
Moreover, I have yet to see a good reason it makes sense to prefer tyranny of a minority to tyranny of the majority, where we can't avoid both.
> limits the effects of massive voter fraud
This is an important point that's not often discussed, IME