Imagine an election with so many inaccuracies that officials declare a winner; then declare a tie; then declare another winner after two weeks. Imagine an election with rules so confusing that the media is barred from observing and the count takes two full days. Is this some Third World country rigging the count, in desperate need of election monitors? No—it’s Iowa and Nevada, and this year, it’s how the man who could be the next leader of the free world is being picked.
Thanks to movements inside both the Republican and Democratic national committees, 2012 may mark the end of this presidential nominating system. And Iowa and Nevada are the two states most likely to lose their coveted positions at the front of the calendar.
The Case for Renewed Reform
