Forum Post: Constitutional Amendment to Remove Money from Politics

1) No Gerrymandering for political gains. All Districts to be divided by major geographic boundaries (Mountain range, Rivers, Lakes, Valley’s, Major interstate, or city boundary). All districts to be continuous blocks in nature. This will be enforced by a state election board established to audit the state senatorial elections and presidential election.
2) Congressional Elections: All elections are local in nature and all registered voters can only vote for who will represent them from their district for congress. The candidate’s money should only come from their district that they will represent. No outside influence should outweigh the people of that districts collective voice. This would return are representatives to us. If they want re-election and the vote and money to be re-elected they have to earn it in their district.
 Election board for each district to be established. They will be a 5 member non-partisan board elected to one 4 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 district. 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 Congressional District 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 district allows so long as they have an established party headquarters in that district with a full time staff during the entire previous election cycle.