Whereas we the people are created equal, and
whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and
whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and
whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality.
1.
Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume.
2.
a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line.
b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access.
c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections.
d) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections.
e) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided.
f) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place.
3.
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State.
4.
All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded.
5.
a) There shall be at least one Representative to each Thirty Thousand citizens, per state.
b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives.
c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them.
d) Congress shall be unicameral, and the Senate shall be dissolved.
6.
All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be
provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour.
7.
The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting.
The only way to stop Koch brothers and various BribeLaunderingPacs from throwng hundreds of millions of dollars at elections is for it to cease to be cost-effective to do so. The first time money doesn't make a difference, it will no longer be an issue.
Equal rights, yes, but not equal outcomes. Everyone has an equal right to speak. That doesn't mean anyone has the right to demand free access to someone else's platform, or to make others listen. Those are things you have to negotiate for on your own, and money is one perfectly legitimate way to do that.
DEMAND FREE ACCESS TO SOMEONE ELSE'S PLATFORM: Like When your boss has a conversation with you when you're at work or When a rich person or group takes over your television viewing with advertising, or when your church or other so-called non-political group begins talking politics.
I vote for NON-PROFIT POLITICS. Let the candidate state their case, and let me hear it and decide. No advertising sell which we all know advertising is artificial persuasion to make you buy something you don't want or need, No bigger better brochures, posters, billboards bombarding me everywhere. Come to the debate. answer the questions and I will decide. Feel free to walk the nation and give speeches at public school auditoriums or on the street corner. This a homeless candidate can do. No one should be able to do anything more than a homeless, jobless candidate can do. Otherwise it's not equal.
Obviously if the law changes there will be a time period for corporations to adjust to the new law. I think we are talking about whether or not to change the law back to what it used to be. And perhaps even further so that only PEOPLE have a say in elections and so that all PEOPLE are EQUAL regardless of the amount of money they have. How do we make the voice of a homeless person equal to Bill Gates is the question. The answer is PUBLICLY funded elections.
An association of like minded people can get together and TALK and then decide they are going to cast their vote the same way, or go out on a stroll and stand on a street corner and espouse their point of view. They don't need money. to influence the vote for a candidate. They can create fliers to address an issue. Keep money OUT OF ELECTIONS.
Corporations did not always have rights to collect money for elections. So stripping them of this right just puts them back in their place. Where they had to be voted on every few years to see whether they could keep their incorporation papers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Legalize Democracy on youtube
I make the argument that no group or person can privately from their pocket donate to a candidate because it has the appearance of bribery. The elections should be funded by us all as a whole. The candidates should have their names and a paragraph compiled in an election brochure that is mailed to all voters. No advertising should be sold for television. No profits should be made on the elections. All candidates must be in all debates. Debates should be aired on C-span and public access television and radio only. All candidates should have the same amount of time to answer which can be done by putting a timer on the microphone. when you speak your microphone uses your time. use it wisely. Newspapers may write articles on each candidate, The public can go to the library and search each candidate on the internet.Stop wasting paper on fliers, and posters and do research on the candidates instead. Frankly the campaign brochure (the candidate writes their own paragraph or page themselves) and the debates of which there will probably be more when people realize that is the only way the public can find out who they are, are enough to make a decision.
Don't the oil spills all over the country bother you? Or the swindling that the banks have done to consumers and investors? The lack of government oversight is allowing businesses to kill us and look the other way. Take GM for one. Pharmaceutical companies pushing through things that are easily checkable. And tort reform the big lie that causes us to lower the only weapon left. No I need government to protect me since I am not an expert on all of these different businesses.
Are the Soros, Buffets, and Gates a part of the American Legislative Exchange Council? because I think that group is unconstitutional,and any legislators that get their bills from them should lose their office. Left or Right.
Whereas we the people are created equal, and
whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and
whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and
whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality.
1.
Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume.
2.
a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line.
b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access.
c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections.
d) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections.
e) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided.
f) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place.
3.
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State.
4.
All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded.
5.
a) There shall be at least one Representative to each Thirty Thousand citizens, per state.
b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives.
c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them.
d) Congress shall be unicameral, and the Senate shall be dissolved.
6.
All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be
provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour.
7.
The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting.
If you would like to read the reasons behind each rule go here instead. https://www.facebook.com/group...
This party has for OVER TEN YEARS committed to NOT TAKING CORPORATE MONEY! And this PAC is just another group claiming to be neutral but ultimately will sort through Democrats for the elections. Credo, MOVEon, Emily's List, all claim to look for progressive candidates. The GREEN Party is FULL of PROGRESSIVE candidates. We shall see if any of your 5 choices are from the Green party.
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Whereas we the people are created equal, and whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality.
1. Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume.
2. a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line. b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access. c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections. d) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections. e) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided. f) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place.
3. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State.
4. All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded.
5. a) There shall be at least one Representative to each Thirty Thousand citizens, per state. b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives. c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them. d) Congress shall be unicameral, and the Senate shall be dissolved.
6. All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour.
7. The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting.
If you would like to read the reasons behind each rule go here instead. https://www.facebook.com/group...
The only way to stop Koch brothers and various BribeLaunderingPacs from throwng hundreds of millions of dollars at elections is for it to cease to be cost-effective to do so. The first time money doesn't make a difference, it will no longer be an issue.
Voting Green would be the way to do that.
Equal rights, yes, but not equal outcomes. Everyone has an equal right to speak. That doesn't mean anyone has the right to demand free access to someone else's platform, or to make others listen. Those are things you have to negotiate for on your own, and money is one perfectly legitimate way to do that.
DEMAND FREE ACCESS TO SOMEONE ELSE'S PLATFORM: Like When your boss has a conversation with you when you're at work or When a rich person or group takes over your television viewing with advertising, or when your church or other so-called non-political group begins talking politics.
I vote for NON-PROFIT POLITICS. Let the candidate state their case, and let me hear it and decide. No advertising sell which we all know advertising is artificial persuasion to make you buy something you don't want or need, No bigger better brochures, posters, billboards bombarding me everywhere. Come to the debate. answer the questions and I will decide. Feel free to walk the nation and give speeches at public school auditoriums or on the street corner. This a homeless candidate can do. No one should be able to do anything more than a homeless, jobless candidate can do. Otherwise it's not equal.
Obviously if the law changes there will be a time period for corporations to adjust to the new law. I think we are talking about whether or not to change the law back to what it used to be. And perhaps even further so that only PEOPLE have a say in elections and so that all PEOPLE are EQUAL regardless of the amount of money they have. How do we make the voice of a homeless person equal to Bill Gates is the question. The answer is PUBLICLY funded elections.
An association of like minded people can get together and TALK and then decide they are going to cast their vote the same way, or go out on a stroll and stand on a street corner and espouse their point of view. They don't need money. to influence the vote for a candidate. They can create fliers to address an issue. Keep money OUT OF ELECTIONS.
Corporations did not always have rights to collect money for elections. So stripping them of this right just puts them back in their place. Where they had to be voted on every few years to see whether they could keep their incorporation papers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Legalize Democracy on youtube
I make the argument that no group or person can privately from their pocket donate to a candidate because it has the appearance of bribery. The elections should be funded by us all as a whole. The candidates should have their names and a paragraph compiled in an election brochure that is mailed to all voters. No advertising should be sold for television. No profits should be made on the elections. All candidates must be in all debates. Debates should be aired on C-span and public access television and radio only. All candidates should have the same amount of time to answer which can be done by putting a timer on the microphone. when you speak your microphone uses your time. use it wisely. Newspapers may write articles on each candidate, The public can go to the library and search each candidate on the internet.Stop wasting paper on fliers, and posters and do research on the candidates instead. Frankly the campaign brochure (the candidate writes their own paragraph or page themselves) and the debates of which there will probably be more when people realize that is the only way the public can find out who they are, are enough to make a decision.
Don't the oil spills all over the country bother you? Or the swindling that the banks have done to consumers and investors? The lack of government oversight is allowing businesses to kill us and look the other way. Take GM for one. Pharmaceutical companies pushing through things that are easily checkable. And tort reform the big lie that causes us to lower the only weapon left. No I need government to protect me since I am not an expert on all of these different businesses.
Are the Soros, Buffets, and Gates a part of the American Legislative Exchange Council? because I think that group is unconstitutional,and any legislators that get their bills from them should lose their office. Left or Right.
Whereas we the people are created equal, and whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality. 1. Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume. 2. a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line. b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access. c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections. d) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections. e) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided. f) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place. 3. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State. 4. All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded. 5. a) There shall be at least one Representative to each Thirty Thousand citizens, per state. b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives. c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them. d) Congress shall be unicameral, and the Senate shall be dissolved. 6. All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour. 7. The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting. If you would like to read the reasons behind each rule go here instead. https://www.facebook.com/group...
This party has for OVER TEN YEARS committed to NOT TAKING CORPORATE MONEY! And this PAC is just another group claiming to be neutral but ultimately will sort through Democrats for the elections. Credo, MOVEon, Emily's List, all claim to look for progressive candidates. The GREEN Party is FULL of PROGRESSIVE candidates. We shall see if any of your 5 choices are from the Green party.