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Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 8: Districts Gerrymandering is outlawed. It will be replaced by any combination of compact computer drawn districts using open source software and/or citizen wisdom councils selected from jury duty pools, and/or at-large districts. All gerrymanders in progress in 2011 are stopped by this Act and replaced by tightly-drawn districts. …
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Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 7: Representation Enact Open Registration. Enact Proportional Representation via the Voting process (Part: 3) with full integration of the Electoral Integrity Principles (Part: 1) and full use of national referendums (Part: 4). What this means is that no voting block comprising 5% or more of the population, across the …
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Independent Voter Network (IVN) Steele on Electoral Reform: Introduction of a New Series I have been invited to post a series of short commentaries on the Electoral Reform Act of 2012, a crowd-sourced outline that started in 2000 and was first developed over time by myself with Jim Turner (former #2 to Ralph Nader), Michael …
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Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 6: Cabinet Independent Voter Network, 17 March 2012 Presidential candidates must name prospective individuals to all Cabinet positions at least 90 days prior to Election Day, and those individuals must participate in such debates as the states might organize, and at least one national debate for each of the …
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Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 5: Debates Independent Voter Network, 16 March 2012 Each state shall sponsor at least one presidential debate for a total of 50 debates, each state determining the questions, format, and participants. Each state shall sponsor at least one cabinet-level debate among designated individuals, e.g. the Attorney General, Secretary of …
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Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 4: Voting for Issues Independent Voters Network, 11 March 2012 “Voters in all jurisdictions -the nation, states, counties, localities, school boards, water districts, etc.- shall all have the right to propose and vote on legislation, including amendments to constitutions, charters, etc., in parallel with representatives. Improvements over existing initiative …
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Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 3: Voting for People Independent Voter Network, 9 March 2012 All national, state, and local elections must immediately begin, and by Election Day 2014 complete, the process of phasing out plurality voting and adopting a better voting system. An improved voting system should collect more information from voters using …
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