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Re:America’s Hidden Duopoly by throw-far-away on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:30PM (#18455280)
Minimum feature-set of a sensible psephocracy:

- no campaigning or special interest ads a week before voting

- only public funding and named individual small donations for public servant campaigns: no PACs, no super-PACs, no huge check fundraisers and no dark-money SIGs.

- nationally-unified, same-day voting, no prior registration required

- nationally-unified, three prior weeks of voting-by-mail

- media blackout on counts until all final results are in

- overturn Citizens' United (by amendment via state legislatures)

- eliminate the primary

- end the Electoral College

- free & open source tech unified, national e-voting system, open for all to audit

- public blockchain for permanent results

- printed receipt with barcode of hash saved in the blockchain

- ranked choice voting (as it provides an instant run-off should the favorite be disqualified, die or resign; also provides N picks for boards, vice positions and directors)

Re:America’s Hidden Duopoly by civilian on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:10PM (#18456003)
It's sad you liked ranked choice voting last. That's all we need to end the duopoly.

I also feel, as the supreme court does, that Citizens United is a free speech issue. You should listen to this podcast about it to get some perspective: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/citizens-united

In a beautiful piece of irony, if it hadn't been for Michael Moore shamelessly using his corporation to produce political speech, the Citizens United court case might not have been successful.