I just wanted to throw out there that having an informed electorate was one of the reasons there is the Electoral College. We can blame LLMs, etc. now but low-information, easily-swayed voters has always been an issue.
The current system, where you can vote in primaries, and where electors reflect their states’ vote, is just a few decades old.
Penalties for “faithless electors” are somewhat recent and only exist in states which passed laws to give themselves that power.
the blatant, sneering disdain for lowly commoners that supposed proponents of "democracy" are continually unable to contain for even a few paragraphs at a time will somehow never fail to shock me