You didn't answer the question.  Where else on the planet does a representative democracy give the "win" to the political party that has fewer votes? 

You need to review your 6th grade civics class to understand how the EC came about. The Founding Fathers didn’t fully trust democracy, fearing mob rule. They thought the people needed elites to pick their president for them. They correctly worried that a pure democracy could result in the election of a demagogue, or a charismatic autocrat, or someone under foreign influence.  So they limited the vote to white men who owned property. But these men did not vote for directly for the president. They voted for state legislators. The state legislatures appointed the electors, not the voters. So the method of choosing the president has changed a lot over the years.

Ironically, a system designed to prevent the people from choosing an unqualified demagogue has resulted in the election of an unqualified demagogue not chosen by the people.