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Only the rights of the minority which live in less populated states and thereby the rights of the others are subdued. So those people don't deserve equal weight to their votes?

The EC was never supposed to represent the minority. It only does today because the number of congressional representatives is unfairly capped.

I don't know where you're getting this idea since one of the main goals of the Electoral College was to protect smaller states from more populous states dominating presidential elections.

Boudreaux, Paul. "The Electoral College and Its Meager Federalism." 88 Marq. L. Rev. 195 (2004). Available at Marquette Law Review.

What stops the electrical college from giving the majority an advantage?

AC does that, without the electrical college it would just be DC all the time with ever increasing polarisation.

It was enacted so that the minority of slave owners could get their 3/5 slave representation without letting their slaves vote.