Depends on what you mean by "goes against the will of the voters". There have been close elections where one candidate won the popular vote and the other won t

Depends on what you mean by "goes against the will of the voters". There have been close elections where one candidate won the popular vote and the other won the electoral vote. That hasn't led to the electoral college being abolished. If you're talking about faithless electors, they have so far never affected the outcome of an election. If they did, I'm sure the calls for reform would become even louder than they are now. If the electors were intended to be able to exercise their own judgement, it hasn't really worked that way in practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector