Complete reforms of electoral process and congressional branches

[MillennialModerate]

Took my post from the “should the senate be abolished” thread. Here’s a list of reforms that are badly needed and would do a lot to safe guard from the potential disaster we could’ve faced after 1/6.


1. Selection of Presidential nominees

A. Establish a uniform system of picking party nominees for all parties.

**With a setup that is roughly this**
• Primaries begin in February;
• Primary days over the course of 3 months;
• Delegates awarded by primaries represent 98% of convention delegates
allowing party leaders to break races of razor thin margis; order of state
primaries elected based on closrless of result in previous election)

2. Selection of President (options)

optionA. Abolish, Presidential election becomes popular vote
optionB. Pop Vote winner gets EV equivalent to 5% of otherwise total
optionC. Retain current system; would be fairer w/ congress change

**Remaining reforms will assume continuation of Electoral College**

3. Confirmation of President (options)

A. State can’t change means of electoral allotment AFTER votes cast

B. In case of electoral college tie: House and Senate
take combined individual vote; winner is POTUS

C. Congress meets to confirm electoral college results as currently
[•] If VP refuses to preside, speaker may do so; If leaders of Congress refuse to call confirmatory joint session then Presidential canidate may appeal to SCOTUS for confirmatory ruling which would be held within 48 hours of request
[•] IF both chambers vote to not accept states electoral votes then Supreme Court meets next day to confirm that the reason for denying electoral votes was legitimate
[•]If deemed to be a partisan move - SCOTUS can override congresss denial of electoral votes thus officially certifying next POTUS
[•]Congress can only override SCOTUS veto by meeting the next day and 75% of each chamber overriding



4. Reform of the United States Senate:
A. Each state is awarded 3 Senators, one for each cycle
B. PR awarded statehood, DC awarded 2 Senators (as a compromise)
C. Fillibuster is reformed:
[45% required to FB, must all be present; bill can only be fillibustered for 2wk]


5. Reform of the United States House of Representatives

A. Add 210 seats to House; give DC seats proportion to pop
(lock number in, reset to same population % every 50yrs)
B. Ban partisan gerrymandering

6. Voting rights

• At least 15 days of early voting including the final T, W, Thu, F, S, Su before Election Day
• States have option of Voter ID (with reasonable substitutions allowed)
• Unintentional wrong precinct votes must be counted
• Number of drop boxes and/or polling locations by county must be allocated based on population
• States that allow mail-in voting must require two signatures and ID verification
• Option to register to vote must be given when registering car/ certifying marriage ..similar occurrences

[MillennialModerate]

The house needs to be Cube Root Rule and then needs independent redistricting or some form of PR.

There is no mention of campaign finance here and that is probably among the biggest problems we have.

Campaign finance is something that needs work but seeing as that gets struck down by the courts - I figured leave it out. I think it was his list of we implemented it’s a list that doesn’t come off as a liberal wishlist grab bag - but are things that make things fairer - unfortunately a lot of it would require a constitutional amendment