The time to dump the electoral college has come and gone so it seems.
The numerical vote is the obvious correct way to measure election results in a  democracy in its voting of candidates for office. It is a universal method used most everywhere as far as I know.
Do not refer to it as the "popular vote."  It is a real vote result,  fair and square.  Candidates with the greater number of votes should be the winner of any election.  Come and gone but  actually not too late and absolutely necessary.  The electoral college is unfair and undemocratic.  It should be long gone by now. Ironically, when Hilary Clinton was a US Senator I heard her say on a news cast commenting on this subject that she planned to introduce a legislative  proposal to remove  and to replace the electoral college.  But then I never heard another word from then Senator Clinton and no such legislative  proposal appeared as far as I know.  It's time, now Alaska Delegation