TrainTrac.
Currently the standard IRS 1040 form gives you the option of donating $1 of your paid tax dollars to the the election fund (this could easily be raised to allow the tax payer to donate from $1 to $100 instead of just $1). If you don't care to give, you don't have to...nobody is twisting your arm. However, if you decide to donate, you will not be donating the money to any specific candidate but to the general election fund.
The whole purpose is to take the MONEY FACTOR out of the elections and let the American people vote for candidates based on their merits, not the size of their Campaign War-Chests stuffed with Corporate donations and Special Interest Group money. That way it becomes difficult to buy a candidate and obligate him/her to do them special favors when in office....That also goes for political parties as well...since they are nothing more than a Special Interest Group.
I would propose a series of TV debates and the American public will be allowed to call in their vote much like American Idol, Dancing with the Stars or America's got talent shows. They don't cost the candidate any money except travel expenses which would be paid by the General Election fund donations. After the preliminary debates, the final 5-6 candidates with the most votes would continue on to the primaries.
After each few primaries, the candidate with the fewest votes would be dropped from the campaign and all future ballots and no longer receive any more campaign funds. Eventually we will get down to the two or three most popular candidates and they end up going on the ballot for the actual election.
The problem we have now is that we the American people do not really have a choice as to who goes on the ballot, that is done by the current political parties at their national conventions. That's also why we as voters feel cheated in that we often don't like either candidate and must choose between the lesser of two evils? If you are interested in getting your candidate into office, then you have to insure he/she makes it to the final ballot by participating in the voting after the debates, participating in the primaries and stop sitting on your butt waiting for others to pick the canidates they want.
...Rich
