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3 Ways to Make Your Vote Count in a Money-Soaked Election

Fri, 09/21/2012 - 13:12 — Dave Culver
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Fran Korten, Yes! Magazine

September 20, 2012 | Recently, a respected friend sent me an outraged email. His subject line: "BOYCOTT VOTING!" He was at wit's end over the vast sums of money that wealthy individuals and corporations are pouring into our elections: $400 million from the Koch Brothers; $100 million from Sheldon Adelson. If big money is going to buy the election, he said, then he will “withdraw his consent” by not voting.

I, too, am apoplectic at the money flooding our elections. It speaks of a level of corruption that undermines my hopes for solving the big problems of our time. That’s why I’m promoting the passage of a constitutional amendment to curtail unlimited election spending.

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Rights are for Real People, Jeffrey D. Clements, Yes! Magazine
Where the infamous Citizens United decision came from and how to overturn it.
 

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