Quick Hit Angela Caputo Friday February 5th, 2010, 10:04am

Time To Eliminate The Lite Guv?

Could the Scott Lee Cohen debacle finally push the state of Illinois to eliminate the lieutenant governor's office? Today, editorials boards from across the state are calling for a constitutional amendment to do away what the Daily Herald calls a "do-nothing office."  Meanwhile, Dan Johnson-Weinberger uses the Cohen story to remind us of the "danger of our plurality elections."  He argues that we should avoid such situations by moving to primary runoffs.  (Under such a system, if no candidate receives more than 50 percent at the polls, the top two vote-getters face off in a subsequent runnoff election.)  Finally, the Reader's Whet Moser takes a broader view of the Cohen saga: "The actual possible bright side to this is that it could be the sort of waking-up-covered-in-vomit-in-a-gutter (with vague memories of a 'masseuse') moment the state really needs to get its shit together."

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