Judge rejects challenge to winner-take-all election system

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the winner-take-all system Massachusetts uses to assign its Electoral College presidential votes.
Chief U.S. District Judge Patti Saris said in her decision on Friday that there may be “valid policy arguments” on the practice of assigning all of a state’s Electoral College votes to the winner of a state’s popular vote, but that it does not violate the Constitution.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of t