Comprehensive Voting Reform Proposals
Voting rights is the most fundamental ingredient in democratic societies. Whereas, in the United States of America it is an age old issue that is one of the most contested and controversial.
The outcomes of elections determine citizenship, freedom, majority and minority status, and matters of national security, healthcare, and overall quality of life. Citizens and American inhabitants ought have the right to be cynical about voting. In part, the frustration comes from six presidential elections not going in the favor of the popular vote. But, the citizenry have to take control of the voting reform process.
The politically aware must increase engagement and the unaware have to engage in voting and voter turnout. Because, if voting was not important men and women that sit in city councils, state capital buildings, and Capitol Hill; would not fight so aggressively to suppress suffrage rights. If it were not important, there would not have been a Civil War. If it were not important, the ancestors would have been given suffrage when the United States Constitution was written. If it were not important, it would not have been gradual for non-white males to gain access to the ballot box. If it were not important, legal action would not be taking place to protect it. If it were not important, it would easily be expanded.
Youth Political Engagement
Each School District/School Implement The National Student Mock Election Or Similar Program
Automatic Voter Registration At Age 18
States Have The Option To Authorize 16 Year Olds To Vote
Overturn Citizens United/Campaign Finance Reform
Legislatively Readdress Citizens United Case
Drastically Reduce Corporate Funding In All Local, State, And Federal Elections
Lower The Cap On Corporate Donations In All Elections
Voting Rights Act
Reinstate All Portions Of The Voting Rights Act
Monitor Elections In All States
Investigate Voter Disenfranchisement And Oversight In All States
Criminal Re-Enfranchisement
Felons Suffrage
Incarcerated Individuals Suffrage Via Absentee Ballot
Polling Places/Precincts
Wait A Minimum Of 5 Years Before Purging Someone From The Voting Rolls
Open Polling Places At Pre-2012 Sites
Open Early Voting Polls The Sunday Prior To The Election
Increase The Number Of Precincts In Dense Populations
Subsidized Or Free Public Transit To Polling Places On Election Day
The Electoral College
Abolish Electoral College
Cybersecurity
Innovate And/Or Create Backup System
Increase Cyber Security Of Voting Machines
Increase Testing Of Voting Software
Foreign Involvement In Elections
Increase Foreign Collaboration To Address Issues Of Cyber Security
Execute Both Economic And Diplomatic Sanctions On Nations That Hack And/Or Interrupt Elections
Voter Identification
Subsidized Identification Fees When Used For Voting Purposes
Utilize Any Photo Identification For Voting
Voter May Use Any Photo Identification To Cast Provisional Ballot
The Absentee Ballot
Hospitalized Voters Receive An Absentee Ballot
No Excuse To Receive An Absentee Ballot
Voter Registration, Early and Election Day Voting
Election Day Voter Registration and Updating
Election Day Voting Hours (Minimum 7am-7pm)
Online Voter Registration
Early Voting 3 Week Minimum
Vote By Mail In Remote Areas
Gerrymandering
Draw District Boundaries Using Geographical And Methodical Measures
Eliminate Partisan Gerrymandering
Improve Voting Awareness
Conduct Media Driven Voter Registration Campaign
If the United States employs all of these measures, it will become a global leader in the implementation of the free and fair elections. It will set the standard for what suffrage looks like. The nation will demonstrate what full enfranchisement is in practice. The country will cast off years of discrimination in its voting practices. Therefore, America, lead the world anew and enact comprehensive voting reform.
