The Citizen Equality Act of 2017
The non-partisan movement to
#FixDemocracyFirst
What is the Citizen Equality Act?
Help us decide
The Citizen Equality Act is our vision of the reforms we need to fix our democracy.
Together, these reforms will fundamentally change the way our government works. They will fulfill the promise of American democracy: a government of, by, and for the people.
Each part is modeled off of existing proposals. If there is sufficient support, we will kickstart an organization to crowdsource the process for completing the details of this reform and provide draft legislation by the start of 2016.
Help #FixDemocracyFirst by co-sponsoring the CEA and joining the effort to create the first crowdsourced legislation in our nation's history.
Citizen Funded Elections
All citizens deserve an equal ability to choose our leaders.
The Citizen Equality Act will end pay-to-play politics by changing the way we fund campaigns by taking the best of Rep. Sarbanes’ Government by the People Act, and Represent.US’s “American Anti-Corruption Act.” That hybrid would give every voter a voucher to contribute to fund congressional and presidential campaigns; it would provide matching funds for small-dollar contributions to congressional and presidential campaigns. And it would add effective new limits to restrict the revolving door between government service and work as a lobbyist.
Equal Representation
All citizens deserve equal representation in Congress.
The Citizen Equality Act will give each voter as close to equal political influence as possible by redrawing districts and restructuring election systems. It will use FairVote’s “Ranked Choice Voting Act” to end political gerrymandering and create multi-member districts with ranked-choice voting for Congress.
Equal Right to Vote
All citizens deserve equal access to the ballot.
The Citizen Equality Act will guarantee the equal freedom to vote by passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015 and the Voter Empowerment Act of 2015. In addition, we will enact automatic voter registration and turn election day into a national holiday.
About
citizenequality.us is an exploratory site led by volunteers for Lawrence Lessig's presidential campaign. The purpose of this site is to justify the founding of a separate non-partisan organization that is responsible for crowdsourcing the Citizen Equality Act of 2017. If we receive more than one thousand CEA citizen co-sponsors, we will launch a new kickstarter to establish this organization. Thank you for helping to #FixDemocracyFirst.
UPDATE: We have hit our goal and are on to the next phase, please refer to the following site until we get the domains sorted out: http://www.citizens4equality.org/