Fantasy constitutional amendment

If I had the magical power to pass any constitutional amendment I wanted, I think I'd reform the way the president and vice-president are elected. I wouldn't go to a straight popular-vote count; that has the potential for chaos dwarfing the 2000 election circus, with disputed votes in every location in the country, in the event of a really close result. (The only reason nobody spent much time disputing the 2000 popular-vote result was that it didn't matter.)

Instead, I'd make the following changes:

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death ray

kerri9494 and I killed George Plimpton by posting about Intellivision.

Update: By the way, if you're wondering why the heck Mattel picked George Plimpton as a spokesman for a video game anyway, remember that this was the era when the spokesman for A1 Steak Sauce was the guy who looked like Dick Cavett. It therefore made perfect sense.

Update update: Oh yeah, and at the time Intellivision's perceived ace in the hole was its sports games, and Plimpton had... well... written about sports. I guess that makes a kind of sense, perhaps if it's 1982 and you're high.