Elections Integrity Legislative Action Items

These are the legislative action items for 2010-2011

• Require voter-verified paper ballots and audits for all federal elections.
• Prohibit the use of paid signature gatherers on all state and local ballot measures. 
• Mitigate the harm to democracy from the SCOTUS Citizens United decision through all legislative means, including immediate legislation to increase transparency and accountability of all contributions. Ultimately, amend the Constitution to assure Congressional and State authority over corporate political speech, and prohibit all corporate financial contributions to political campaigns. 
• Establish publicly funded campaigns at all levels.
• Develop an effective Federal Fairness Doctrine in order to provide the American public with substantive information from all candidates and to counter bias in the corporate media.
• Direct Oregon Secretary of State to develop, use and maintain public ownership of open source software in all aspects of elections, including election management, creation of ballot definition files and vote tallying.
• Amend existing state election audit legislation to meet the goal of confirming to at least a 90% degree of confidence that a complete manual recount would not change the outcome of the race.