After sitting through nine months of the dirtiest election in U.S. history it occurs to me that I may not be alone in my feelings about needing some changes to the process. Here are some of my suggestions.

1) The presidential election should be run by the states but the federal government should set specific standards to be used by all states.

2) All advertising should be limited to speaking about the supporting candidate. Ads cannot reference the other political party or the opponant. Eliminating negative ads and word twisting.

3) The polls should be open for 24 hours across america. Open at the same time and close at the same.

I have more but need to run to a meeting.

you forgot to mention that evil, polluting, racist republicans should be barred from all ballots

Add a VERY basic aptitude test

ya, like the old square hole, round peg test. if you cant deicde what shape goes inwhat hole you cant vote

Originally posted by Brooks
Add a VERY basic aptitude test Egads!!! What a biased thing to say!!




/sarcasm

Originally posted by Brooks
Add a VERY basic aptitude test
But that wouldn't be very fair to Kerry supporters, now would it? All joking aside, I'd totally be a fan of this, but how could we accomplish it when TEACHERS don't even want to be subjected to basic aptitude tests??? They'd complain that it wasn't very egalitarian, I guess. In the immortal words of Yakov Smirnov, "what a country".

I agree with a basic aptitude test. Locally, the admendments to the state constitution and all referendums in the county were voted yes, except one. So many stupid things were passed that I have insignificant doubt that many people didn't read or know what it was about, and just hit "yes". I push it farther, the test should be weither or not you actually know what the issue is. And for candidates, know what they stand for. A very short test asking weither or not he/she or opposes a bunch of popular issues. Such as, does Kerry or Bush support gay marriage or civil unions? That will probably eliminate the vast majority of the voting population... A friend of my joked that it would shrink the number of people who voted for somebody down to 5% of the nation. Regardless, maybe people would bother to see what the hell the person is about.