Fixing the Vote

    In the past six presidential elections in America, the Republican candidate won the popular vote count once.

   That was when George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004. Four years earlier, he lost the popular vote count but won the electoral college vote after a lengthy battle over ballot "shreds" in Florida that wound up in the Supreme Court.

   In the 2016 election, Donald Trump lost the popular vote but won the presidency after another battle over electoral votes. Four years later, he lost both vote counts despite another long battle in a series of court jurisdictions, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him twice.

   Perhaps it's reassuring to believe that one out of six ain't bad.

   Either that, or it may be time to repair the way presidential elections are held.