# How to prevent this election nonsense from happening again **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-prevent-this-election-nonsense-from-happening-again/924791 "2020-11-04T22:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-prevent-this-election-nonsense-from-happening-again/924791/39 "2020-11-05T15:00:46Z")
Returning to the OP which ISTM wasn’t about news media coverage, but rather about competent & clean election administration: > [@jsc1953](#): > > What should be done to make elections run more smoothly, with less drama, and with results known sooner? And what can be done with/without a constitutional amendment? To that I’d answer with two adjacent posts I made a month ago on a larger topic of which clean competent elections is just one small piece: > [@Starting over, the NEW new form of government thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-over-the-new-new-form-of-government-thread/922154/33): > > That’s the most pessimistic interpretation of my point. And not an unreasonable one. I notice you’re the only person who picked up on my earlier comment. Which is not a criticism of you, but rather noting that everybody else is rushing ahead to the fun part of rearranging the deck chairs not having laid their foundation of stopping the ship from taking on water. Here’s a (little) more optimistic take. I think that the USA or Texas or CA could readily be governed successfully under the curre… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-prevent-this-election-nonsense-from-happening-again/924791)._