Is there any hope of streamlining the voting process and encouraging more turnouts?
DA: Yes, several things can be done. The increased use of early balloting and mail-in ballots could make voting easier. Same-day registration also helps considerably. Another idea would be to change Election Day to the first weekend in November. The evidence that this could increase turnout is mixed. Some experts are skeptical, but one study has shown that European democracies that have voting on Sunday have an average of 6 percent higher voter turnout. QA: The Electoral College seemed to work well this time. Do we still have to still worry about it misfiring like it did in 2000 when the loser of the popular vote (Bush) won the electoral vote? Yes, we still need to worry. The chances of electing the “wrong” president under this system remain substantial. Although the wrong person has won only four times in our history, there have been 16 other close calls–where a switch of less than 75,000 votes in key states would have meant that the loser of the popular vote would have become presid
