Make Your Vote Matter

A platform for democratic reform

Principles

1. One person, one vote.
   1a. Corporations are not people.
2. Checks on power.
   2a. Money is not speech. It’s power.

Platform

• Ranked choice voting.
  
• Public campaign financing only—ban on all private contributions.
  
• Nonpartisan ballot access and elections.
  
• Nonpartisan congressional organization: End party-based committee assignments and leadership.
  
• Total gift bans in all public positions.
  
• Ban of all paid lobbying: protect citizen right to petition.
  
• Ban on gerrymandering—Independent redistricting based solely on population and geography.
  
• Abolition of electoral college (Interstate Compact then Constitutional amendment).
  
• Government education services that teach citizens and newly elected officials how government processes work.
  
• Secret ballot for citizens; public voting records for representatives.