Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
Limit presidential campaigns to 90 days, reducing the amount of money required.
Presidential campaigns are funded by the Federal government, with strict regulations on how the money is spent, including tight regulations on political speech. Outright lies will get a candidate disqualified, even if it means leaving a single candidate on the ballot.
It will be illegal to spend private money of any kind, from any source, on a political campaign, with harsh penalties.
All lobbying through campaign donations of any kind is strongly prohibited.
When money is removed from politics, the only thing of value is a Citizen’s single vote, and the candidate must battle to get that single vote, instead of money.
A Citizen is automatically registered to vote at birth, and that registration automatically validates on their 18th birthday.
That vote is sacrosanct, and cannot be removed for ANY reason, including a felony conviction. Even incarcerated prisoners can vote. Even the suggestion that the vote should be removed from any group violates the law.
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
Limit presidential campaigns to 90 days, reducing the amount of money required.
Presidential campaigns are funded by the Federal government, with strict regulations on how the money is spent, including tight regulations on political speech. Outright lies will get a candidate disqualified, even if it means leaving a single candidate on the ballot.
It will be illegal to spend private money of any kind, from any source, on a political campaign, with harsh penalties.
All lobbying through campaign donations of any kind is strongly prohibited.
When money is removed from politics, the only thing of value is a Citizen’s single vote, and the candidate must battle to get that single vote, instead of money.
A Citizen is automatically registered to vote at birth, and that registration automatically validates on their 18th birthday. That vote is sacrosanct, and cannot be removed for ANY reason, including a felony conviction. Even incarcerated prisoners can vote. Even the suggestion that the vote should be removed from any group violates the law.
Eh, I’d say rank choice voting and lowering the barrier of entry to get on a ballot is more important.
You only need a few hundred bucks to make a decent website with an outline of your issues
And the reason you can’t get that is because the opponents pour zillions into campaigns to keep that from happening.
If you want Ranked Choice Voting, then you have to get money out of campaigns first.
I’ll say it again: Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
Eh, nah. Chicken and egg argument, but I think the rank choice goes first.
From Berkeley to Maine, there’s a lot of places where we still have billionaires pouring into elections but we already have rank choice voting.
Once we have rank choice, it’s easier to actually elect non corporate candidates and resolve the citizens united issues.