Indeed, we can see that if we didn’t have such compartmentalization, thanks to the college, then fraud in one state could potentially overwhelm the country as a whole. That is, if there were no Electoral College, and if the total of popular votes were all that mattered, and thereby determined the national victor, then who knows how many people could be registered at, say, 419 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis — and how many of their votes, or “votes,” could contribute to the national total.
One of the features of the Electoral College is what we would now call compartmentalization; thus the national election for president is actually a series of state elections, thereby hopefully compartmentalizing a problem into just the affected state. As Hamilton put it, one strength of the college was that it was “dispersed as they would be over thirteen States.”