ELECTORAL REFORMS

Voting Justice: The Key to Change
To make our elections fair and truly democratic, we must eliminate the winner-take-all election system where one group imposes its will on the rest of the population. Democracy requires the following changes to our elections system:

Electoral Reforms

1. Public Financing of elections to end the corrupting power of money. This enables candidates to seek citizen support and not scurry after big money; this increases our chances to understand the issues and candidates.
2. Proportional Representation for legislative races so that if one group garners 30% of the vote, they get 30% of the representation.
3. A system of Preferential Voting, such as Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) or Condorcet. Voters rank their choices (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). If one’s first choice does not receive at least 50% of the vote, his 2nd choice is counted, and so on, so that no vote is wasted. There are no spoilers.
4. Fair Debate Access to all ballot-qualified parties–the simple right to be heard as candidates.
5. Required Prime-Time TV Access to all qualified candidates (the airwaves are public–we own them).

Election Changes

1. Fair Ballot Access
2. Easy and Same-Day Voter Registration
3. Polling Day Holiday

Activity
Read about the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition