Winner Take All Voting Pact Wouldn’t Force Courts to Change Laws

Politics increasingly is driving the law. Slowly but surely, there’s a growing bipartisan national movement that could fundamentally alter how we elect the US president, all without amending the Constitution. It recently got one step closer to reality.

A democratic election should follow three basic principles: Whoever gets the most votes wins, every vote should be equal, and candidates should be incentivized to campaign in all 50 states. But until recently, no one believed that the Electoral College system could be changed without a constitutional amendment. This is a laborious process that requires either congressional action or a constitutional convention ...