Election Policy Recommendations

Ban government elected officials and political appointees from owning precious metal and or financial industry investments exceeding $2,000, except US savings accounts and checking accounts, including certificates of deposit.

Require political campaign contributions to be anonymous and electronic. Prohibit political campaigns from gathering information on individual donations.

Ban campaign contributions from corporations. Prohibited gifts and loans exceeding $16 from corporations to elected officials and political appointees.

Remove the campaign contributions box from tax forms. Prohibit government entities from providing political donation matching funds.

Ban individuals owning more than $40,000 in government contractors' financial instruments from making political donations.

Prohibit entities seeking and or receiving government contracts exceeding $50,000 per year from making political donations.

Prohibit any cryptocurrency owning entity from donating to US political entities. 

Prohibit any entity having investments greater than $10,000 in foreign and or multinational entities from donating to US political entities.

Ban government entities from providing money and services for political party primaries.

Require presentation of legal state or federal US citizen photo identification for in person voting.

Require presentation of legal US citizen military identification or US citizen passport to obtain a mail-in ballot.

Prohibit states, local governments, and election workers from banning and or hindering voter identification requirements.

Prohibit states and local governments from giving voting rights to non-citizens.

Ban current and former military personnel above the 0-4 rank from Federal elected positions and Federal political appointments, except at the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Prohibit current and former intelligence entity employees from government elected positions and political appointments, except at intelligence agencies.

Require states and local governments to publish and distribute publicly funded voters' guides, describing issues and candidates for each public election, giving roughly equal space to each  candidate.

Require candidates for federal and state legislatures to publish at least 12 example bills they will introduce once elected at least 200 days before the next legislative election.

Ban counting of mail-in ballots without US postmarks, including those from overseas US military entities.

Ban ballot harvesting, the collection and delivery of ballots by third parties other than USPS workers performing their USPS assigned duties. 

Ban convicted felons from voting. Prohibit convicted felons from government elected offices and political appointments, including convicted felons receiving pardons or commutations.

Grant first choice of Congressional committee assignment to the representative having the smallest sum of a) political funds raised in the past two years, b) non-governmental income in the past five years, and c) funds spent on their most recent congressional election. Grant second choice of committee assignment to the representative having the second lowest, etc.

Prohibit individuals born outside US states and territories from making US political donations.

Prohibit individuals born outside US states and territories from government elected offices and political appointments.

Require all elected officials to comply with restrictions on ownership of financial instruments prior to taking office.

Ban the disbursement of government funds to political parties, political campaigns, and political candidates--along with their first, second, and third degree relatives by biology and marriage--except as listed on this site.

Ban political donations to political parties, their employees, and their candidates between September 15th and July 15th.

Prohibit any US entity from donating more than $600 over a 60-year period to all organized foreign political entities combined, including donations disguised as sales or purchases or other transfers.

Ban government funding for partisan political insignia.

Require government election signatures to match government issued photo ID signatures.

Ban any individual's name from appearing more than once on a government election ballot.

Ban anyone with a history of mental illness hospitalization from running for political office.

Ban individuals owing debts to foreign  entities exceeding $13,100 at any time in their lifetimes from political employment paying more per year than half the local median annual household income.

Require mail-in ballots to be postmarked at least nine working days prior to election days.

Require ballot listed judicial and legislative candidates to have lived in the areas they plan to serve for at least a lifetime total of 12 years.

Ban entities from paying voters to vote or not vote.

Prohibit political campaigns from transferring campaign contributions to entities employing, run by or owned by candidates--plus the first, second, and third degree relatives of candidates.

Make 99 years hard labor the mandatory minimum sentence for election fraud involving more than five ballots in a single election.

Broaden the definition of lobbying to include conversations with and gifts to elected politicians, political candidates, and political appointees from corporate and nonprofit executives and board members.

Prohibit corporate and nonprofit board members from donating to politicians and political campaigns.

Require write-in candidate capable ballots for all government elected offices.

Permit state and federal elected office candidates to pay themselves up to 65 percent of the US annual median household income from their campaign funds per election.

Ban individuals previously filing for bankruptcy and or receiving student loan forgiveness from elected offices and government employment, except in military and medical fields.

Ban current and former chief decision makers of bankruptcy filing businesses and or bailout receiving businesses from elected offices and political appointments for life.

Hold in person general elections on the first Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays of Novembers.

Prohibit members of government employee labor unions from elected offices and political appointments.

Require ballet listed candidates for legislatures, the presidency, and the vice presidency to pass multiple choice civil service exams in ethics,  macroeconomics, psychometrics, epidemiology, informal logic, human genetics, grand strategy, antitrust reasoning, and anti-corruption practices. Require similar exams for regulators. Examples of correct answers: 

1. the probability of a fair coin landing heads three times in a row is 12.5 percent.
2. Hamilton's Rule is irrelevant to most public policy issues. 
3. The best conclusion on an issue has the greatest weight of good premises supporting it. 
4. Fallacious premises should not be given weight for or against a conclusion. 
5. A short-term, well targeted stimulus at least equal to seven percent of GDP should be the policy response to a shortfall in demand equaling seven percent of GDP. 
6. Invoking envy is an irrelevant circumstantial ad hominem attack, except when envy itself is the issue being argued. 
7. The most important known factors affecting human intelligence are genes, plus a bit for iodine supplementation, minus some for aging and brain injuries. 
8. A reason why taxes on negative externalities are often better than command and control solutions is that politicians have terrible track records of picking future technologies and specific solutions. 
9. The expected value of an outcome is the probability of an outcome times the value of the outcome. 
10. Egoists take over groups. Altruism and mutualism survive because groups of altruists and mutualists splinter from groups being taken over by egoists. 
11. Altruism towards some often causes greater overall harms to others, especially future generations. 
12. Ethics should mostly focus on producing beneficial long-term consequences. 
13. R naught varies with situations.

Require political appointees to the state and defense departments to pass multiple choice civil service exams on ethics, informal logic, military strategy, and grand strategy. Examples of correct answers: 

1. achieving ethical political goals, while avoiding war, is better.
2. Avoid situations where enemies easily destroy forces piecemeal and with overwhelming mass and destructiveness. 
3. Sending a supply convoy to the Philippines on April 5, 1942 would have been an example of reinforcing defeat, negative expected value, and failure to ignore sunk costs.
4. Minimize enemies. Better to fight enemies one at a time or not at all.
5. Maximize positive expected value allies. Minimize negative expected value fake allies.
6. Avoid tit-for-tat rhetorical grandstanding against foreign groups you have no worthwhile influence over.

Prohibit anyone currently or previously employed as a violent mercenary from voting in US elections.

Prohibit government elected officials, election candidates, and political appointees from using auto delete after reading text message apps.

Prohibit government elected officials, election candidates, and political appointees from using auto delete after reading email services.

Require winning candidates in judicial, legislative, and executive elections to quit other remuneration receiving activities upon taking office, except interest earned by bank and credit union accounts.

Prohibit judges and defendants, along with their first through third-degree relatives, from knowingly giving gifts to prosecutors and donations to the political campaigns of prosecutors.

Prohibit lawyers, plaintiffs, and defendants, along with their first through third-degree relatives, from giving gifts to judges and donations to the political campaigns of judges.

Prohibit candidates for political offices from running for more than one office at a time.

Eliminate straight-ticket check boxes from ballots.

Require judges to run as independents. Prohibit judges and judicial candidates from publicly endorsing political candidates other than themselves. Prohibit judges and judicial candidates from donating to political campaigns. Prohibit judges from knowingly hearing cases involving their first through fourth degree relatives, along with knowingly hearing cases involving plaintiffs and defendants the judges have previously socialized with for more than two minutes. Prohibit judges from making decisions based on religious rules during trials and hearings. Prohibit judges the previous two sentences from holding current and future elected offices.

Require testing for APOE4 genes of above age 47, polling above 20 percent state and federal election candidates. Require public reporting of homozygous carriers.

Prohibit Federal and state elected officials and political appointees from holding more than one government job at a time.

Prohibit employees of and or investors in foreign and or multinational entities from voting in US elections.

Ban individuals ever diagnosed with brain cancer, toxoplasma gondii, and or neurocysticercosis from elected offices and political appointments. 

Ban any individual self-described as a former or recovering drug addict from elected offices and political appointments. 

Ban drug addicts and or anyone who sought drug addiction treatment from elected offices and political appointments. 

Ban individuals diagnosed with dementia by their physicians from elected offices and political appointments. Require any physician diagnosing an elected official or political appointee patient with dementia to publicly report their finding, removing privacy regulations for these cases.

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: individuals consuming alcohol and or schedule one through three drugs more than nine days in the past 60 days, whether it legally prescribed or not.

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: individuals convicted of possessing and or trafficking illegal schedule one through three drugs anytime in the past 55 years.

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: individuals ever diagnosed with severe encephalitis, meningitis, and or brain abscesses. 

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: individuals diagnosed with at least two concussions.

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: individuals self-described as having God's grace and or forgiveness for their past evils committed.

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: individuals invoking God's will for government policies.

Require the firing or resignation of all elected officials and political appointees older than their 57th birthdays, except those scoring at least 124 on biennial independently proctored IQ tests.

Ban term limits based solely on duration of time in office.

Require Congress to vote on presidential appointee nominations within 20 working days of their nominations,  confirming nominees when Congress fails to vote within 20 working days.

Require elections for state secretaries of state, commonwealth secretaries of commonwealth, and other senior election officials in odd numbered years. Ban members of political parties and anyone receiving funding from political parties from these positions. Ban former political party candidates and elected officials from these positions.

Prohibit non-anonymous donations to political inaugurations and social events.

Prohibit declared political candidates from receiving personal gifts and or  remuneration from anyone exceeding $16, except from businesses and or employers they had prior to declaring their political candidacy. Prohibit Federal and state elected officials, political appointees, and their staffers from receiving gifts and or remuneration exceeding $16, except for government salaries.

Prohibit foreigners in the US from almost all US political activism, except with their texts, mouths, emails, next day mail, and first class mail.

Prohibit foreigners from knowingly organizing US political gatherings containing more than six individuals.

Prohibit US advertising entities from knowingly aiding and abetting foreign funded US political advertising.

Prohibit from elected offices and political appointments: current and former chief decision makers at corporations and or nonprofits that received government loans, grants, contracts, and or tax expenditures.

Prohibit government law enforcement employees from belonging to political parties for the remainders of their lives. Prohibit gifts and donations from politicians and political parties to law enforcement officials and their political campaigns.

JT Fournier, updated April 12, 2025