Forum Post: 2 Constitutional Amendment to Remove Money from Politics

3) Senate and Presidential Elections: All elections are local in nature and all registered voters can only vote for the senators who represent them in Washington DC. The candidate’s money should only come from their State that they will represent. No outside influence should outweigh the people of that states collective voice. This would return are Senators and president to us. If they want re-election and the vote and money to be re-elected they have to earn it in their state. All election campaign money for the presidential election must be used for campaigning purposes in the state of origin of the donation and to follow all the state election board laws as to maximum allowable contribution level set by that body. They work for us.
 Election board for each State to be established. They will be a 5 member non-partisan board elected to one 5 year term. They are to be responsible to audit each congressional election during their term.  A vote of the people will determine a maximum donation amount that a registered Voter, Political Party, Corporation, Union, Pac, or special interest can donate for each election cycle. This will be enforced by the election board’s audit process. Each registered voter, Political Party, Corporation, Union, Pac, or Special interest will have a donation ID number linked to an attached voter registration number both encrypted so they cannot be related except that the audit board will know what is legal donation Id and what is not and they will have separate numbering style and separate numbers so that both your vote and your donation will be kept anonymous. Each donation must have a registered voter ID donation Number attached to the donation for it to be accepted by a candidate. This is to be verified by audit of each candidate’s campaign finances each election cycle. We as American citizens can’t launder money so why should our politicians. o A Political Party, Corporation, Union, Pac, or Special interest shall only be able to participate in the donation process up to the maximum single total amount designated by that State. No more or less than any other registered voter in their district. o A Corporation, Union, Pac, or Special interest shall only be able to participate in the State that it has its corporate headquarters in. One Person or Entity One donation. o A political party may have the ability to up to the maximum single amount donation that each State allows so long as they have an established State party headquarters with a full time staff during the entire previous election cycle.
Our political system is the best that is out there. We as American citizens need to take it back while not infringing on any of our freedoms or individual rights. This is a way of doing just that. I encourage all of you to build on this idea tweak it but see to it that each of our voices is no louder than any others and in this way Senators, Congressmen and even the president will be forced to hear the real majority. Our Elected officials will have to be efficient with their money and will have to actually have to debate each other because this will become the cheapest local forum. They won’t have the billions of outside dollars to throw mud at each other nor have surrogates do it from the other side of the state or for that matter the other side of the country. They will have to listen to us because not only will we send them packing by the vote but we all will have an equal say on their purse strings locally. Their mission first and foremost will be to get the best deal possible for their district, their state, and then by negotiating with each other OUR COUNTRY.