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The 12th amendment states in part:

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President [] they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice—President, and the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.

They vote. Nowhere is there mentioned any other function or grant of authority. Electors are assembled for this one purpose and then disbanded.

Both before and after the 12th Amendment, the electors vote for and choose the president and vice-president. Your disagreement is with the Founding Fathers. They saw the electors job as a very important job requiring "complicated investigations" and deliberation. See Federalist No. 68.

The fact that you are unhappy with the selection of a president does not justify that we alter our whole constitutional system.