These articles will give ideas on how to reform the American electoral system so that we can be sure that the people's votes are counted correctly and without controversy, and that those who are entitled to vote will have every opportunity to vote, and those who are not citizens, cannot fraudulently vote.
From Diebold to ES&S, Florida in 2000 to Ohio in 2004, from Washington state's experiences in '04 with the Rossi vrs. Gregoire election count imbroglio to the increasingly nationwide voter suppression efforts that have occurred in the last three years, citizens have become increasingly cynical about the trustworthiness of elections. My attempt, through the ideas that I present, here, is to help find a way out of this labyrinth of distrust, cynicism and fraud in our election system.
Moreover, in the months since the very controversial Citizens United case was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, it is not just the mechanics of counting votes that needs to be reformed, but the entire structure in which elections are run that also needs to be reformed. Citizens United, which essentially lets a few instead of the masses control elections, should be repealed, preferably through a constitutional amendment. Egalitarian rules for access to the ballot, whether candidates are in or outside America's two-party monopoly, or independent, should be made. Equal time provisions regarding certain types of media access for candidates, which are very weak or simply unenforced, should be strengthened. Proportional representation for federal and state races for legislative or congressional offices should be implemented.
This publication will go over the entire spectrum of elections and democracy in America, and how it should be reformed. Only when elections are fully trusted can democracy thrive. One person, one vote!
- Mark Greene, candidate for Director of Elections, King County, Washington
[updated on 8/30/14]
From Diebold to ES&S, Florida in 2000 to Ohio in 2004, from Washington state's experiences in '04 with the Rossi vrs. Gregoire election count imbroglio to the increasingly nationwide voter suppression efforts that have occurred in the last three years, citizens have become increasingly cynical about the trustworthiness of elections. My attempt, through the ideas that I present, here, is to help find a way out of this labyrinth of distrust, cynicism and fraud in our election system.
Moreover, in the months since the very controversial Citizens United case was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, it is not just the mechanics of counting votes that needs to be reformed, but the entire structure in which elections are run that also needs to be reformed. Citizens United, which essentially lets a few instead of the masses control elections, should be repealed, preferably through a constitutional amendment. Egalitarian rules for access to the ballot, whether candidates are in or outside America's two-party monopoly, or independent, should be made. Equal time provisions regarding certain types of media access for candidates, which are very weak or simply unenforced, should be strengthened. Proportional representation for federal and state races for legislative or congressional offices should be implemented.
This publication will go over the entire spectrum of elections and democracy in America, and how it should be reformed. Only when elections are fully trusted can democracy thrive. One person, one vote!
- Mark Greene, candidate for Director of Elections, King County, Washington
[updated on 8/30/14]
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