Wholesale election reform
Voluntary public financing is essential to improving the health of our democratic system. However, public financing alone will accomplish little to return power to its rightful owners, the citizens. We need comprehensive electoral reform if we are to achieve equality of rights and political power for people — excluding corporations despite their legal personhood. The two-party system is fundamentally antidemocratic. ...more »
Voluntary public financing is essential to improving the health of our democratic system. However, public financing alone will accomplish little to return power to its rightful owners, the citizens. We need comprehensive electoral reform if we are to achieve equality of rights and political power for people — excluding corporations despite their legal personhood.
The two-party system is fundamentally antidemocratic. The two major parties are essentially two halves of a united oligarchy, and they will continue to act in the general interests of that oligarchy even if we have voluntary public financing of election campaigns. We need to break their stranglehold on power by giving other parties a level playing field on which to compete against Republicans and Democrats.
There are a number of ways to approach this, but I propose that, in addition to public financing, New York State should institute a system of instant-runoff voting for elections at every level, and it should join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to undermine the Electoral College.
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