With literally no limits on the amount of money they can spend to influence elections,corporations and secret billionaires are going to be tipping the democratic scales wherever they smell profit.That means it will be much,much harder for politicians of any ideological stripe to solve societyà ‚¬ „ s problems.This money will keep things the way they areà ‚¬"not toward creating jobs,improving education,expanding access to health care |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)