[JohnCochrane] Steve Landsburg wrote a excellent short WSJ oped adding one more good reason for our apparently cumbersome electoral practices:
Imagine a future presidential election in which the incumbent refuses to concede and enlists the full power of the federal government to overturn the apparent democratic outcome.
Now imagine that the election in question is actually run by a federal agency or by some nationwide quasigovernmental authority charged with collecting and aggregating the results from all 50 states. |