text: by the Office of the Federal Register, it was first established "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." What I understood from that text is that it was made to keep equality and fairness between the government and the people. If that is so, why is it that the people have no say in it? I believe that the election should be based on the popular vote because the people should get what the people want.