First election day needs to be either a Federal holiday where everyone is off work so they can both vote as well as watch their children who are out of school so it can be used as a votong station. Even better since everyone in the US of legasl age and who is eligible to vote has a SSN there is no reason that elections can't be done electronically from the comfort of your own home. The whole PIN number tied to an account thing had worked for banks for years to correctly identify individuals so why not for the election process. Given the proper programming this could be done in such a way that the voter's choices remained annonamous but at the same time the person voting would be be using a 'unique' code assigned to them consisting of their SSN and a PIN to insure that they voted only once. Then get rid of the electoral college. It was put in place at a time when instant communication, powered travel (ie planes, cars, etc) didn't exist, with the intent to allow the masses to vote as locally as possible and then for a small amount of individuals to actually do the travel, etc involved for the actual epection process itself. Granted that's a very simplified view but it captures the basic idea behind things. Nowdays there is no reason for doing things this way, and it has actually allowed several Presidents to be voted into office without recieving the popular vote. Given that this countries government is supposed to be driven by the will of the people, when something like this happens, it goes directly against the principles out founding fathers laid out for the way things should be.
Beyond that I agree that we need to have quality candidates running more so than politicians. So, to aid in that we need to set campaign spending limits to level the playing field a bit. The best candidate might not have 200 million to blow on TV adds, etc, etc but the way things are now the other guy can all but buy the election by getting his name out and overloading the public with his adds to the point that the best guys stuff gets lost in the shuffle. Ultimately though the best reform will be to get career politicians out of office and get in some people that care about more than lining their own pockets at the publics expense.
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