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Monday, February 5, 2007 12:00 AM

How to fix campaign financing forever for $50

A radical proposal by two Yale professors goes far beyond any reform envisaged by Feingold or McCain.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, February 5, 2007 01:47 AM

    My goodness, this is complicated

    Goodness, my dear, had nothing to do with it. Just make the $3 checkoff mandatory and publicly finance elections, no matter what the public wants or think they want. Educate the public why that is a good thing. And start educating them on the need for so-called instant runoff voting. And get rid of the archaic Electoral College. Will there be any serious discussion by the mainstream media of all this? Of course not, because they can't get past the day to day of who's winning and losing politically. It's all like a game of sports to them.

    —Bill Dunn

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