Reply #41: To begin with, I'd like a 3-day National Primary.

[RevCheesehead]

(By the time these guys get to Wisconsin, many of the candidates have dropped out. This last year, we moved our primary from April to February, and even THEN (!) Dean and Clark were gone!)


Campaign Finance Reform and Campaign Rules
1. Corporate campaign donations will be eliminated. Every last one of them.

2. a. The fairness doctrine will be reinstated. Equal time will apply to the top 4 candidates.
b. All Campaign commercials are to be paid for in full by the campaign, and will NOT be permitted to be shown on TV news, or news-magazine formats.
c. In addition, any media personality who uses the media to campaign, or to ridicule the opposition, would immediately be in violation of the fairness doctrine.

3. Democratic and Republican conventions will be held within one week of each other. The opponent(s) will refrain from media exposure during the other's convention. During these conventions, no new campaign ads will be permitted to air.

4. The incumbent president will maintain regular office hours during the campaign. He/she is to be "on the clock" at a minimum of 2 days a week. (It's "hard work." Deal with it, or you don't deserve the job.)

5. Debates will be in classical high-school format, moderated by a forensics teacher. Candidates will either choose to particiapate, or not. There will be no negotiating on setting and format. All candidates will be checked for wires, hearing devices, and plastic explosives.

Voter Bill of Rights
1. Presidential elections will be a federal holiday. All people will be given time off of work to vote, w/no penalty (even if paid hourly).

2. Same-day registration will be permitted across the country. Open party, no registration of party affiliation.

3. Precincts will be allocated a voting booth in a % to the number of eligible voters across the country. In addition, precincts which have had numerous problems of disenfranchisement will be monitored by a designated UN delegate.

4. a. All officials in the board of elections will be forbidden to take a leadership position in any candidate's campaign. When you agree to the job, you agree to sacrifice your partisanship publically.
b. The above rule will be rigorously enforced in regards to brothers or other family members of candidates.

5. a. All polls will remain open until every last person in attendance is allowed to vote.
b. Exit polls will be done by the Canadians, but the information will not be released until the last poll closes in Alaska or Hawaii. All exit poll data will be released in full at that time.
c. The media may make use of independent sources for exit polls, but will NOT be permitted to project a "winner" of ANY state until all polls have closed, nation-wide. Patience is a virtue.

6. People in the hospital or needed at work will be permitted to vote.

7. Ex-felons who have served their time will be permitted to vote.