Editorials.

PRESIDENTS of the United States; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; ELECTIONS; SCALIA, Antonin, 1936-2016

FLORIDA; UNITED States

This article discusses the United States president George W. Bush's post-election politics after the "Florida debacle." The Bush post-election campaign was rife with such conflicts of interest up to and including the Supreme Court itself, in which two Justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, maintain close family ties to the Bush operation. There will be much talk of reforming the country's voting technology. But mechanics are secondary. There is a need for deep pro- democracy reforms that stop the spiraling concentration of power into an ever-smaller number of hands. These reforms include getting money out of politics as well as passing voting reforms such as instant runoff and proportional representation, and, in the longer term, abolishing the Electoral College.