Does the Electoral College represent the will of the people?

"Our president is chosen by ourselves, directly in practice, for we vote for A as elector only on the condition he will vote for B..." - Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816.

Does our system of democratic election work?

Through their right of suffrage, the people exercise their sovereign power over government. If things are not going right, they can throw one set of interests out and elect another that promises a revision of the course that government has taken. - Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.