This is different still. It's more like how the US president's cabinet is unelected. I was referring mainly to the European Commission, and a common criticism I

This is different still. It's more like how the US president's cabinet is unelected. I was referring mainly to the European Commission, and a common criticism I hear about it. The electoral collage does follow a process that is election, even if there's one (or more) layer of abstraction between that and initial ballots.