Following your link, 24 states have no law restricting their presidential electors. They vote as directed, as in the other states, because voting against your party is social suicide. The process resembles an election because that resemblance serves the purposes of the political duopoly in the U.S. It has always been a kludge, working around the nominal autonomy of the states within the federation.

The facts are still the definition of the word "election" and the contents of the national constitutions. There is no amount of rhetorical gymnastics that you can perform to make "Hitler was elected" anything other than a provably false statement.

It doesn't matter. Clearly, there is no specific requirement that a democratic society has to pick its leadership in free and fair elections, nor do elections prevent jerkasses from becoming dictators.