Doing away with the Electoral College 3/5

In an Electoral College, a group of people that become representatives for each state, vote along with all other Americans on Election day. There are 538 representatives in the United States. Those people however, are the one who's votes are counted towards the presidential election. Of those 538 people, 270 people are needed in order for a decision to be made.

Having this system of election has left me somewhat boggled as to why we have adapted it.  In the article, Doing away with the Electoral College, by Alexander Keyssar, He says,

"As a nation, we have come to embrace “one person, one vote” as a fundamental democratic principle, yet the allocation of electoral votes to the states violates that principle. It is hardly an accident that no other country in the world has imitated our Electoral College." 

The United States is an extreamly democratic Country. It is believed that we a group of people create what our present and our future will be through the decisions we make. The type of process we use to vote on such an important role as who will be our president, shows that we are not truly in control and that we are not trusted with that control. In a world where one person is supposed to equal one vote, that type of message would send mixed signals towards the american citizens. Do Americans really have a choice in the decisions in this country? Is that the true reason for the decline in people voting?