The real tragedy is that none of this legalistic shenanigans would be gumming up our electoral works, if . . .

If we had a simple, nationwide, majority-rule election, instead of the obsolete electoral college holdover from bygone days.

Why is that so? The all-or-nothing schema applied to each state in the Electoral College sucks the worst kind of politics and legalese sophistry into our delicate mechanism for electing leaders--and then it exaggerate the simple majority in a way that distorts what may be a very slim lead, making it appear as a significant majority.

Therefore politicians, lawyers and judges haggle over hundreds of votes like jackals fighting over meat scraps.

The destructive effect of this distortion renders our elective process a comedy of errors, although a better term would be a "tragedy of exaggerations."

Saddest of all is that our highest court--supposedly above mere politics-- is dragged into the mire and finds itself unable to resist a baited trap. The Justices unwittingly end up being party to the petty crimes of their underling lawyers who happen to be scheming politicos.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!

And there will be hell to pay.

For the sake of our nation, we need to make it a high priority to amend our Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College, and replace it with simple majority-rule democratic election.