What the Electoral College needs is a neutron bomb--a weapon that leaves the structure standing but wipes out the people. While there are plausible arguments for preserving this 200-year-old system, the first step is to cleanse it of its most dangerous moving part: human beings.
Although today electors dwell in deserved obscurity, they still have to gather, usually in their state's capital, a month or so after Election Day and actually cast votes. They have carried out that task with admirably robotic precision: only nine have ever failed to vote as they pledged. But they could make mischief in circumstances such...
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