[Recall, Referendum and Initiative Amendment][Campaign Finance Amendment]
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- Section 1.
- All American citizens of age 18 or older shall have the right to vote for the offices of president and vice president of the United States, for the senators representing the state in which they reside, and for the representative sent to the US Congress from their congressional district.
- Section 2.
- A voter may cast his or her vote(s) for any constituent of the office in question and no registration of candidates shall be required nor shall a fee be imposed for counting the votes written in for any candidate for any office of the United States.
- Section 3.
- A ballot shall not bear any name other than as written in by a voter representing that voter's choice(s) for the office in question, nor shall a ballot provide the picture of a potential candidate, nor shall it bear the name of a political party, but ballots shall provide the name of the office being contested in the election and a clearly marked place in which the voter shall write the name of the candidate(s) she or he prefers to hold that office.
- Section 4.
- In the event that the people themselves shall have chosen to allow the specification of an ordered list of preferences for a given office the ballot shall provide an ordered list of spaces to write in the names of those preferred, in number as specified by the people in their enabling legislation.
- Section 5.
- Ballots may be cast in presidential, senatorial and congressional elections over a period of not less than one week, either by US mail, at a designated polling place, or by other means designated by the people's own legislation or in legislation passed by their representatives.
- Section 6.
- Polling shall continue with tallies at one week intervals from the beginning of an election until a majority of those voting shall have elected a person to fill the office, unless an alternative method is decided upon and enacted by the people themselves.
- Section 7.
- The ballots for president and vice president, for senator, and for congressional representative may be combined onto one ballot, as long as two or more remain undecided, if not otherwise specified and enacted by the people themselves in separate legislation.
[Recall, Referendum and Initiative Amendment][Campaign Finance Amendment]
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