Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 06, 2015

Both would only worsen the situation. We need publicly funded national, regional and local elections run by an independent election commission, staffed with paid professionals. Voting districts need to be determined by population and geographical boundaries only. Voting needs to be made mandatory on a voting holiday with increased access thru mail and early voting processes. We also need to limit the time spent on elections with free media time provided by the TV and Radio stations for qualifying candidate debates – real debates with stated propositions and positions taken for and against. Anything less is doomed to failure.