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Election Reform

Working Definition: Election reform can be generally understood as efforts to change how elections are conducted to improve fairness, accountability, and public trust in the electoral process.

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Left Guardrails

Right Guardrails

Access: Ensure election reforms enhance voting access, preventing disenfranchisement of eligible voters through unnecessary barriers or socioeconomic limitations.

 

Security: Ensure elections are secure, advocating for measures against fraud while ensuring they do not create undue burdens to vote.

 

Education: Ensure election reform emphasizes the imperative of equipping every voter and candidate with the knowledge and resources necessary to participate fully and effectively in elections.

 

Cost: Ensure fiscal responsibility through a prudent and sustainable approach to the financial implications of implementing and maintaining reforms on a voluntary basis.

 

Fairness: Seek opportunities to achieve fairness with election reforms without the establishment of arbitrary outcomes.

 

Conduct: Maintain a slate of candidates that conduct themselves in accordance with ethical behavior.

 

Rights: Ensure that participation in the democratic process is recognized and protected as a fundamental right.

 

Privilege: Maintain the effective use of election resources as a privilege that entails responsibility and prudence.

 

 

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