I wonder if they could put together a new voting page.
Listing each position that is up for election within a persons district.
Each candidate running in that election - withOUT showing party affiliation.
Show the top 20 issues that actually fall into the rhelm of responsibility for each position and a blurb as to where each candidate stands on each issue.
Now to vote, we voters would actually have to READ what each candidate stands for...plus we could get a printed copy showing us who we voted for and what they claimed to stand for on election day.
This would be a means of holding individual elected officials accountable for their campaign talk.
I wonder how different elections would be?
Obviously voting would take longer then the 5 seconds it takes us today...but could we actually be better informed voters on election day? Or would some rather keep the voters uninformed?
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