Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance

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Summary: GET A VOTE IN THE MONEY PRIMARY
Review: Full disclosure: I just started a non-profit with the authors to make Voting With Dollars happen. Our website is at www.CitSov.org. Here's why I joined the effort.

The Citizen Sovereignty Act, a two-part legislative proposal detailed in Voting With Dollars, would invigorate citizen involvement in politics and remedy cynicism about campaign fundraising.

The Act would fundamentally reform federal campaign fundraising by extending voters the use of automated teller machines for publicly funded campaign contributions of "Patriot dollars," and; by rendering private campaign contributions anonymous, mimicking the secret ballot as a safeguard to the integrity of the political process.

A major benefit of these innovations is to allow a substantial increase in campaign contribution limits and associated free speech. Other, more incremental efforts to reform federal campaign finance fall short of the Citizen Sovereignty Act.

* The Act eliminates the sale of political access for political funds while increasing the funding and opportunity for free speech.

* The Act redirects the permanent campaign of political fund-raising toward all the nation's voters and away from the one-half of one percent who today make half of all contributions.

* By potentially involving every American in political fund-raising, the Act increases voter participation on Election Day.

Voting With Dollars details the Act and how it satisfies constitutional requirements. A model statute provides a concrete basis for an effort to restore faith in Congress and the Executive Branch.

Read Voting With Dollars. Take a look at www.CitSov.org. Get involved in making it possible for everyone to participate in the money primary of American politics.