ABSTRACT
It is traditional to conclude a book on presidential elections with calls for reform. I shall not depart from this tradition, but neither shall I rehearse theusual complaints about the hurdles to voter registration that still exist inmany states, the inordinately large number of state primaries, lax controls at the ballot box in certain jurisdictions that encourage election fraud, the faithless elector in the Electoral College who does not vote for the winning candidate in his state, and so on. These are legitimate complaints that can bemade about our present system of electing a president, but they are not its central problems.
