text: To begin with, The Electoral College is a process. In the article "Does the Electoral College work?" it states that "the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." The Electoral College process consists of picking the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and the vice president and then the counting of the electoral votes by congress.