No More Bribes - Real Campaign Reform

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Real Campaign Reform

The only "campaign reform" that will work is to completely eliminate the bribery system.   If you leave any part of the bribery system it will grow back like a cancer.
 

A Simple Solution

You have been or will likely be bombarded with propaganda designed to make you believe that nothing can replace our current political campaign system and "be fair".   Nothing could be further from the truth. 

It can be done by passing a law at the State and local level, here's how:

1. Make giving money to and receiving money by a political candidate a criminal felony with a mandatory five(5) year prison sentence per offense with no exceptions, no parole and no such penalties may be served concurrently.
    
2. Eliminate the need for money in campaigns by:
    
   1. Having cable and satellite television providers have 3 consecutively numbered channels running the same continuous loop of each candidate's five(5) minute video, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week during elections as part of their public service requirements.
       
   2. Provide each candidate a government run political campaign website.
       
3. Make it law that all elections in the State shall be counted by paper ballot, that the State shall directly own, operate and maintain the ballot counting machinery, with no outsourcing or subcontracting possible, and that the ballots themselves shall be durable enough for several recounts.

Note:  For this simple solution to work all three items must be done.

It seems too easy, is it?

A single law passed at the State and local level will do it.  Let's take them one at a time:

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Cable and Satellite Television

• Cable and satellite television providers can be required to provide the same 3 consecutively numbered channels every time there is an election and to run the same continuous loop of each candidates 5 minute video 24 hours, 7 days a week as part of their public service requirements.

• Candidates would be allowed to update their 5 minute video once a week during the election.
   
• Public schools, colleges and universities with audio-visual facilities can be required to provide those facilities after-hours during elections and the states can either provide the staff or hire the school, college or university staff to do so.
   
• The reason for the 3 channels is to permit the offices the candidates are seeking to be split up amongst the 3 channels, with all the candidates running for any specific office kept together on the same channel, and to make sure the cable and satellite television companies don't try to make the channels difficult to find.
   
• The reason cable and satellite television companies are required to perform public service is that they are enjoying the use of private property in the form of easements and use of the public airwaves with which to do their business.
   

Government Run Political Campaign Website

• Have each State run a political campaign website that:
   
  • Is to be owned and operated by the government.
     
  • Is staffed with government employees, regardless of the level of government.
     
  • Make it law that the operation is to have sufficient independent redundancy and backups to assure uninterrupted service during the election.
     
  • And make it a felony to interfere with the operation of the website or interfere with the personnel performing their duties.
     
•  The complete set of URLs - http://city.county.state.elections.gov  would be used solely for elections.  This is a .gov domain (government only) therefore there is no commercial contention for the elections.gov URL or any of its subdomains.
  
   

State Owned, Operated and Maintained Ballot Counting Machines and Paper Ballots

• This eliminates the ability of private companies to alter election results and "give" an election to a particular candidate or party (a form of bribery).
   
• There is a paper record of each vote which eliminates the ability to irrevocably tamper with elections.  With electronic voting, once the original number in the computer is altered, there is no way to recover it. But you can always recount paper ballots.
  
   

Done.  It's almost that easy.

• Legalized bribery has been removed from our political system.
   
• Not a penny is given to the individual candidates.
   
• Television advertising is free to the candidates and is done as part of the public service requirements for cable and satellite television carriers.
   
• Websites are free to candidates, cheap to run and, because it is run by the State with redundancy requirements mandated by law, there should be no "accidental" outages and such.
   
• Video and media production is free to candidates and is cheaply done after-hours at pre-existing facilities at state run schools, colleges and universities, the states only pay for the extra time of existing audio-visual staff and maybe a small equipment cost.

Almost?  Yes, there is one issue left:  The federal positions of representative, senator and president.

The constitution of United States permits the House of representatives and the Senate to determine how their positions are to be elected with some exceptions left up to the state.  This provision in the constitution was made because of the fear that states would not participate in our newly formed republic.

This will actually not be much of an issue for any State once they pass this simple campaign law within the state.  Because once you have removed the bribery from the State legislatures they can easily pass laws to bring the State representatives and senators to federal government in line, regardless of how much they want to accept a bribe.

Imagine a State that passes a law that makes it a felony for their federal representative or senator to either vote on a bill without a vote by the people of the State on that bill or to vote against the people's vote on a bill.

Definitions

Easement:

1. an act or means of easing or relieving (as from discomfort)  (easement 2009)
    

2. an interest in land owned by another that entitles its holder to a specific limited use or enjoyment ; also : an area of land covered by an easement.  (easement 2009) 


 

3. in Anglo-American property law, a right granted by one property owner to another to use a part of his land for a specific purpose. 

   An easement may be created expressly by a written deed of grant conveying to another the right to use for a specific purpose a certain parcel of land. An easement may also be created when one sells his land to another but reserves for himself the right to future use of a portion of that land. An easement may also be created by implication, when, for example, a term descriptive of an easement is incidentally included in a deed (such as “passageway”—a section of land to be used for passage). An easement by implication also arises when the owner of two or more adjacent parcels of land sells one lot; the buyer acquires an easement to that visible property of the seller necessary to the buyer’s use and enjoyment of his lot, such as a roadway or drainage duct. When created in this manner the easement also arises as an easement of necessity.

   In most of the United States and England, statutes permit the creation of an easement by prescription, which arises by virtue of a long, continuous usage of the property of another by a landowner, his ancestors, or prior owners. The length of time necessary for such continued use to ripen into an easement by prescription is specified by the applicable state statute.

   When use of the easement is restricted to either one or a few individuals, it is a private easement. Use of a public easement, such as public highways or a portion of private land dedicated by a present or past owner as a public park (also known as a dedication), is not restricted.

   An owner of an easement is referred to as the owner of the dominant tenement. The owner on whose land the easement exists is the owner of the servient tenement. (easement[2] 2009).