I just discovered the Electoral College doesn't even meet in person! This is clearly a bullshit system.
If you're going to have an Electoral College, have a damned Electoral College! Fly in the Electors. Let it meet in style in, like, the House Chamber.
Let that dude who announces the President at the State of the Union also announce the Electoral College is in session. Or the Oyez dude from the Supreme Court
I love the UK's state opening of Parliament. The Electoral College could be just as fun. Maybe there could be special robes! Or wigs.
The state opening of Parliament features a parade with two ceremonial maces, a the Great Sword of State and the Cap of Maintenance, heralds, speeches on vellum. The good stuff.
The Queen wears a crown with one of the biggest diamonds in the world in it, but we make her put it on in a room decorated with the death warrant for Charles I to remind her not to step out of line.
If you're going to have an Electoral College made up of 538 people you've never heard of, at least make them do something cool. Otherwise what's the point?
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