FROM THE CANDIDATE

“I am for getting rid of the electoral college. I think that we ought to have direct election of our presidents; and I think the electoral college is antiquated, belongs to two centuries ago and it’d be good to fix it. Whether we ever are able to fix it is another question, obviously a journey like that takes a long time.”

“This campaign is about you and should be funded by you. That’s why I don’t take corporate PAC money, and why I’m fighting to end the corruption in Washington.

Let’s overturn Citizens United, end partisan gerrymandering, and ban members of Congress from ever becoming lobbyists.”

FROM THE CAMPAIGN

Bold reforms to promote voting, including automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, and expanded early voting.

Protections against partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression, and foreign interference in our elections.

Establish online voter registration.

Pre-register 16- and 17-year olds to vote.

Make Election Day a national holiday.

Make the District of Columbia a state.

Restore core provisions of the Voting Rights Act gutted by the Supreme Court in Shelby v. Holder.

Prohibit politically motivated purging of inactive voters from the rolls, while establishing robust procedures to verify their status and restore their registration in the case of wrongful removal.

Significantly increase penalties for intentional voter suppression.

Require the use of paper ballots for federal elections and risk-limiting audits for all federal races.

Provide resources to state and local governments to adopt these reforms and transition to more inclusive and secure elections. 

Protect the integrity of the U.S. Census by removing any question about citizenship status.

Require the president, vice president, and candidates for both offices to release ten years of tax returns and disclose and divest any potential financial conflicts of interest.

Create a voluntary small-donor matching system for federal elections to offset wealthy donors, paid for with a small surcharge on penalties for corporate and white-collar crime.

Reform the Federal Election Commission, so it can vigorously enforce campaign finance violations.  By moving to five commissioners, we can break the current 3-3 deadlock.

Require Super PACs and outside groups to promptly disclose large donations.

Require shareholders to approve of any political expenditures by a public corporation and disclose political spending and lobbyist expenditures to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ensure that foreign-owned or controlled corporations cannot spend money in our elections.

Bolster resources and enforcement at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

Stop members of Congress from taking money from lobbyists while they are in legislative session.

Ban senior Congressional staff and cabinet officials from working as lobbyists in the particular areas they worked on for six years.

Close loopholes that allow individuals to operate as lobbyists without registering as one.

Provide dedicated, recurring grants to modernize election systems and keep pace with new threats, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable and under-funded electoral precincts.

Require risk-limiting audits for federal elections, with federal resources to help offset costs.

Prohibit political spending by U.S. corporations that are owned or controlled in significant part by foreign interests.