The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
Hamilton reasoned that the electoral college lessens “tumult and disorder” in the selection of the president in that it allows only the educated and informed people to decide on the election of the United States President.
In Federalists n.- 68, Alexander Hamilton wrote that men capable of analyzing the circumstances, the quality of the candidates, and the importance of the election, could be the ones who could vote.
Hamilton did not trust that the common citizen could have the education level to elect the President. In other words, he did not trust the popular vote.
