Just for a moment, think like an inventor and then like a manufacturer. The subject is promising legislation to further good governance. Decades ago, The Saturday Evening Post had a minor feature called “There Otta Be a Law,” which offered details on where statutory law sometimes missed its mark. When we consider new political issues, we are invoking the message of that item.

When I first heard about ranked choice voting, I was skeptical. Truthfully, I did not understand it. I have a knee jerk reaction (sometimes called a bias) to anything requiring an understanding of the math involved. I decided that any new idea deserved investigation and realized it was an answer to many voting problems.

A Facebook meme says, “Old is ten years older than I am.”