What would happen if we held an election the way that Americans used to do it just a few years ago?

We should try that sometime. Here's how it would work. Everyone would vote on the same day in person.

You would show up and present an ID just like you do at the airport

or the liquor store. Then you'd mark your preferences on a piece of paper. You do it

manually. There would be no electronic voting machines. There would be no

drop boxes or absentee ballots. The poll workers

would probably be people that you recognize from your own zip code. They'd

be your neighbors. They would not be employees of Mark Zuckerberg from California.

As for the names on the ballot you would get to choose

those yourself as citizens do in a democracy. Judges wouldn't be allowed to tell you

who you can vote for and who you can't vote for. You'd get to decide. And then once you

voted nobody could order a stop to the vote counting. That would be illegal.

So you would know the results of the election in just a few hours and you would

feel pretty confident that they were pretty real. of the Well, as it happens, the state of Iowa did that very thing last night.

They had their caucuses, that's the first contest in the 2024 presidential cycle.

It all felt very retro, very non-third world, but the results were interesting here they are Donald

Trump won 51% of the vote Governor Ron de Santis of Florida got 21%

Mickey Haley got 19% In other words, Donald Trump won decisively. At this point it's hard to

see how he's not the Republican nominee because he didn't just win last night.

He triump

overwhelmingly by a historic margin. Trump won the Iowa Caucasus by about 30

points. That's more than double the previous record that was set in

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