CREATING A REAL DEMOCRACY

WE NEED ELECTIONS THAT ARE:

• Accessible

  • Voters with disabilities must be able to vote privately & independently

  • They must have confidence their votes are being counted correctly

• Accurate

  • Count & audit votes publicly, in a way that results in high confidence of accuracy

  • Systems must be secure

  • Technology must be minimal, well-chosen & well-maintained

  • Implement oversight & meaningful regulation of voting machines and vendors

• Fair

  • Establish impartial, professional & efficient election administration

  • Finance campaigns with public funding

  • Modify the electoral college

  • Give all candidates access to the ballot and debates

• Inclusive

  • Establish universal voter registration

  • Create participatory civics programs grades 3- 12

  • Give all eligible voters easy and convenient access to the ballot

  • Restore voting rights to ex-felons

  • Mandate issue-based, balanced political coverage on all networks

• Secure

  • Use hand-marked paper ballots except for voters unable to mark by hand

  • Better, more secure designs for voting systems

  • Eliminate hybrid & “touchscreen for all” voting systems

  • Eliminate barcodes on ballots

  • Remove internet connectivity from election systems

  • Prohibit internet voting

• Transparent

  • Count votes publicly using as little technology as possible

  • Use only open source software for all election systems

  • Access to digital ballot images & election data promptly after results are tabulated

• Verifiable

  • Conduct meaningful robust full hand-count audits or

  • Risk-limiting audits with randomly drawn races & full public transparency

  • Have all official audits performed by neutral agencies