A Stanford professor — the guy who invented the scratch-off lottery ticket — suggests an electoral college compact among the states — like Powerball is a compact among many states. The compact would commit each state’s electors to vote for whomever has the most popular votes for president nationwide. A bill is on Schwarzenegger’s desk now, waiting for his signature. It would commit California’s 55 votes to the scheme.
This does seem like it would make the election national, rather than dominated by the battle in a few key states. And it would be a whole lot more difficult to jimmy the vote in every state.
And it might be a good time to get it done, with so much uncertainty after two close elections.
Read all about it in this report in The New York Times.
Ridiculous.
If the electoral college system is so bad, opponents are free to amend the constitution. Of course, they won’t; it’s much easier to cheat and simply circumvent it.
Like it or not, this is a government of laws. While one could argue that this doesn’t break any law, it certainly exploits and runs contrary to the spirit of the law.