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Martha Montelongo's avatar

Government dollars going to support politicians’ political campaigns would only grow the cost to the taxpayers. Pac money makes it easy for special interests to bypass individual limits on campaign donations. That’s a huge unfair advantages to incumbents and bought politicians.

Low hanging fruit for improving election results would be to reform voter laws that reduced and deterred fraud and that restored confidence in voters so more actually voted.

To restore faith and thus, participation in elections in California:

1) Require voter I.D. Everyone has an I.D. Even drug addicts who live on the streets, if they’re receiving monthly public assistance and EBT funds have I.D. It’s racist to argue that requiring voter I.D. is racists or discriminatory.

2) Eliminate Motor voter registration that happens when ever anyone applies for or renews their driver’s license, automatically mailing out vote-by-mail ballots to everyone.

3) Eliminate vote-by-mail as the rule for everyone, use paper ballots and end wide spread adjudication of ballots.

Early voting starts a month ahead of election day.

4) Stop accepting ballots that are not postmarked or that are not received by election day. In California, counting of all mail in ballots goes on well into the following month of December, whereby candidates who won on election night end up declared losers to their opponents who win by a razor thin margin, a month later.

5) Follow the law and clean up the voter rolls so that voter ballots are not mailed out to dead people or people who have moved.

If these issues were reformed, we would restore faith in elections by greatly reducing abilities for fraud and this would increase voter participation.

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