Publicly financed elections.

[Heywood]

In a sane world: All campaigns would be publicly financed. To determine eligibility, potential candidates would petition for signatures, and, say, the top ten petitioners are allowed to have their names on ballots. Depending on the level of election, a certain amount of money is divided equally between all candidates, who have to make public how every penny of it is spent. Any candidate who knowingly receives and utilizes private funding, fails to disclose expense records or otherwise abrogates these limitations will be subject to federal prosecution for election fraud, as will private parties who knowingly supply financing to help alter the outcome of an election, even if it is not done with a candidate's consent.

Private money does not belong in public elections, period. It is the real voter fraud.

It cost time(which is money) and money(which is money) to go out and collect signatures to get on a ballet. To get people to sign your petition, you have to campaign.....but to campaign you need money which can only come from the government....However the government will only give you money if you have enough signatures.....which require you to spend government money to get....but the government won't give you that money unless you have enough signatures...

You have good intentions, but there are unintended consequences.....namely you create another barrier of entry into the political arena.