THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE DID ITS JOB. The editorial board at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel gets it about half right.

We should have learned this lesson from the previous presidential election. Our Electoral College is a relic, a seriously outdated system of having electors, not voters, elect presidents.

People talk about disenfranchisement, but what is it when votes cast for a "losing" candidate simply don’t count because most states allow the winner to take all of its electoral votes?

This system was crafted by our founding fathers to prevent a tyranny of the majority; so small states would not be outvoted by larger states. Sorry, states don’t vote, people do and every one of their votes should count.

In truth, this Editorial Board has mixed feelings about eliminating the Electoral College. Wisconsin, a battleground state with 10 electoral votes, has something to lose.

If you were spoiled by all the attention given us this year because we were a swing state, you might go through withdrawal if we don’t have the Electoral College. Nonetheless, we can’t be so parochial to blind us to the need to at least debate the issue.

But Wisconsin did have a lesson for the nation this time around in another respect. It allows same-day registration. The rest of the nation should follow suit.

As of this morning, President Bush was further ahead in Ohio without the provisional ballots evaluated than he was behind in Pennsylvania, where I suspect there are also provisional ballots to evaluate. Do we really want to have a nationwide scouring of absentee and provisional ballots to produce a popular vote winner? I bet that could be dragged out much longer than the Florida recount was...