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We Need A Constitutional Voters’ Bill of Rights in PLAIN ENGLISH.

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 9 November 2004
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Elections-Elected USA

We need ammend the US Constitution with a Voters’ Bill of Rights to:


 1. Make it illegal NOT to vote, $1,000.00 fine in 2004 dollars unless you are hospitalized. Have issues statements for each candidate available at the polling place, which the voters must be given time to read and assistance reading them if the voter is illiterate. Have transporation for those that can not get there on their own. Have polling places in hospitals for patients that are capable of voting in the building and certified by three doctors not to be on any mind-altering medications.


 2. Make it impossible to cheat. Get rid of the electronics and mechanicals, period, and go to hand counted paper ballots with multiple and multi-partisan witnesses to the count, and multiple multipartisan witnesses to the tabulation counts. No machines, no computers. We need un-hackable vote counts much more than we need instant results. We do not need a McVote, we need home cookin’. Anything less is worthless. All paper ballots are sealed after the election and retained and secured in their proper jurisdiction for no less than fifty years.


 3. Make it a life sentence to intimidate, mis-direct, lie to, or otherwise attempt to block any citizen’s right to vote. Included in the life sentence is the permanent loss of the offender’s right to vote. The same sentence applies to anyone falsely accusing another of violating this item. There is NO parole.


 4. Make the entire election week time off work unless you are a hospital, utility, fire, or election worker. In any case you MUST have a minimum of two days off, and such workers should be allowed to vote up to a minimum of three days in advance of the election to allow critical personnel to be rotated off duty for voter education and voting.


 5. Require the media to give equal air time to each candidate for office at each level for free for the two months preceeding the election in return for the right to do business in this country.


 6. Eliminate all requirements for a candidate running for office to be on the ballots other than age, citizenship, and not be a felon currently serving their sentence. (When you’ve served your time you can then run in the next election.)


 7. Make it illegal to run a campaign ad of any type prior to two months ahead of the election. No recorded material from candidates unless it is the result of a live interview, and in that case the interviewer must interview every candidate for the same office with all of the same questions before the piece can be aired.


 8. No one can donate one red cent to any candidate for office on pain of life in prison. Each candidate gets two million dollars or the equivalent in 2004 dollars from the US Treasury to run their campaign six months ahead of the election, and must return any unused funds to the US treasury or face felony theft charges. Anything over $2 mil, they pay out of pocket.


 9. Have a class the last two years of high school that teaches our children where to go to register to vote, where to go to vote, and how to vote. They must pass this class to graduate.


 10. Any voter may vote at any legal polling place within the United States provided they have ID that proves citizenship and they have their registration card showing their proper home state and precinct, the home precinct must fax or electronically send a ballot for the correct candidates and it must be printed, counted, and reported back to the proper home precinct via fax with a faxed copy of the voter’s ID and voter registration card.


 11. All candidates must win by receiving a majority of the popular vote for their jurisdiction, no matter the office, and including the President.


 12. A re-count in full or in part may be called by any candidate for office up to one month after the election, after which time the results are certified, however allegations of fraud may be investigated for up to fifty years after the election.


 13. In each election, a panel of registered voters is drawn in the same manner as a jury for trial. The drawing of names is to be completed six months prior to the election. The panel will consist of twenty five registered voters. The panel members will be each paid the amount their current monthly salary would be with their current employer, free of any taxation. This panel will elect a chair amongst them selves by a show of hands for volunteers. It will be their duty to investigate any charges of vote fraud brought in the election they are serving for. They will be paid the same salary until all such charges are investigated and ruled upon. It is unlawful for their current employer to discharge them. Their current employer may hire temporary labor to fill the duties they were previously performing until their duty to the election is discharged. This panel may call upon any witnesses or experts needed, and shall have a staff of five lawyers expert in election law drawn in the same manner they were and paid in the same manner they are to consult. It’s worth the expense to have a citizens’ panel secure each election.


 14. It is the right and duty of every US Citizen to vote in every election, unless they can be proven mentally impaired or can prove they were physically incapacitated during the entire time the polls were open in an election where they did not vote.


Dan Stafford

Forum posts

  • Great ideas- too bad we don’t have elected officials that actually care to see the will of the people manifest itself. This is what people need to see- there are simple solutions to our problems, but the politicians (and the media) simply refuse to talk about them (ie- free air-time) At this point, the system is so corrupt, i say it’s time to start over- to begin again from the beginning.

    It’s not just corrupt politicians, the system itself is corrupt, so even electing new officials into the same corrupt system we will get nowhere. ie- The new senator with good intentions will get slipped a mickey into his drink, then some embarassing photos taken, and voila- another stooge for life. Either he cooperates or the photos are published and his life is ruined. He tells himself, "i’m doing this for my wife and kids."

     Gov James McGreavey of NJ just outed as having a Gay affair
     Remember Mayor Marion Barry, with photos of him smoking a crack pipe? I wonder what he did wrong.

    Wouldn’t it be great if 20 senators spoke out at once? They can’t release damning pictures on all of the Senators, or the elite would just be exposing themselves.