The electoral college has worked fine for over 200 years. Turning into districts is not the answer.
1. Any system of elections works better than dictatorship. If that’s what you mean, then, yes.
2. The present system, involving mostly statewide voting, came in about 1832. So, the present system isn’t more than two hundred years old.
3. From 1832 to 1860, the country was increasingly divided on the issue of slavery. We weren’t able to end slavery peacefully, like they did in the British Commonwealth. Instead, we put 800,000 young men into their graves. We suffered from sectionalism and Jim Crow for more than a hundred years following that.
4. From 1876 to approximately 1960, the present system enabled the Democrats to steal all the EVs of the South. That wasn’t good. Under one-party rule, the states of the South were mired in poverty and corruption. Not until the Civil Rights movement did the Republicans gain traction in the South, giving voters a choice, and propel economic growth (the standard of living of the South is masked by the low cost of living there relative to Democrat-controlled states).
5. The present system allowed William Howard Taft to steal the Republican nomination of 1912, as a result of which Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate, and the Democrats won the election. That wasn’t good.
6. The present system allowed the Democrats to steal the election of 1960. That wasn’t good. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon were both anti-communists, so I can see why Nixon didn’t contest that election being as we were in the Cold War.
7. The present system now allows the Democrats to turn cities and now entire states into one-party jurisdictions. That’s not good for those cities or those states. The people - our fellow Americans - who live in those places suffer increasing poverty and crime and declining municipal services. This included the collapse of the water system in Flint, Michigan. Democracy doesn’t work well in one-party jurisdictions, not here or in other countries.
8. The present system allowed the Democrats to steal this year’s election. That’s not good. The best way to keep any election honest is to have at least two strong parties, one being the check on the other. Each monitoring elections from the inside. The idea that, after the election, volunteer poll watchers and other citizens will report cheating and outright fraud is far-fetched. Yet, Trump is attempting to do just that. It is amazing the stink his team has already uncovered. We will see what becomes of his law suits.
9. In spite of - not because of - all the problems I’ve listed, the U.S. became the greatest country in the history of the world. And we will survive the mess of this election and, so, have an opportunity to get back to the business of making America great again. The next election is already scheduled. But, maybe, we can avoid set-backs such as civil war, paper money, world wars, entire regions of the country mired in poverty, and now rotting cities.