Today the New York City Independence Party released its comprehensive political reform package, "The Antidote to Corruption is Democracy", to the press which included the statement:
"Over the last few weeks, it has become evident that such reform is desperately needed. The current political scandals expose structural weaknesses in the system that need to be addressed, but not in ways that entrench the powerful and preclude a more nonpartisan process."
The package contains the following sections:
1) Nonpartisan Elections and Fusion
2) Initiative and Referendum
3) Term Limits for State Legislators
4) Voter Mobility
5) Nonpartisan Administration of Elections
6) Campaign Finance Reform
7) Nonpartisan Redistricting Reform
8) Full Public Hearings on all Reform
CLICK HERE to read their package of reforms to address the remedial proposals offered by the Governor and others since the recent wave of New York scandals became public.
As an independent activist, I strongly agree with nonpartisan municipal elections, open primaries, and ballot access for candidates and voters alike.
Let’s use this moment of scandal and dysfunction to do something revolutionary with our political system. Let’s make it inclusive, nonpartisan and truly competitive.
After reading the reform package, let me know what you think we need to reform our political process.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!
Michael H. Drucker
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Another idea, relative to the Wilson-Pakula matter, would be to let small qualified parties nominate by convention instead of by primary. This would especially well in the New York city area because the units of county, city, town and village government are mostly physically small and transportation is good. The law could require that any registered member of the party could be a participant in the convention.
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