[NBLUG/talk] Open Source affected by POTUS 2016?

[Omar Eljumaily]

Is there an opportunity to write some open source code?  Online voter 
registration seems like a natural open source project.  You could also 
add features to it that encouraged people to participate in discussions 
that forwarded the political process instead of the idiotic debates and 
media circus acts that were seeing.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/08/lawrence_lessig_presidential_campaign_donate_before_labor_day_for_citizen.html

Lessig says that his sole mission as president would be to persuade 
Congress to pass the Citizen Equality Act 
<https://lessigforpresident.com/the-act/>, which would implement three 
reforms to the political system. First, it would guarantee the “equal 
right to vote” by enhancing the power of the federal government to 
control how states conduct elections, requiring states to provide for 
online or automated voter registration, and shifting Election Day to a 
national holiday.

Second, it would guarantee “equal representation” by banning 
gerrymandering of districts. Lessig also endorses an idea called 
“ranked-choice voting,” where voters rank the candidates rather than 
vote for just one. The candidate who receives the highest aggregate 
ranking wins. (You can find the somewhat complicated details here 
<http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/fair-representation-voting/>.)

Third, it would provide for “citizen-funded elections.” All voters would 
be given vouchers that they could use to contribute to political 
campaigns, and small contributions would be matched from public funds. 
Rules blocking government officials from becoming lobbyists would be 
strengthened.



On 9/21/2015 2:56 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> I don't particularly want to start a political debate on the talk lists but in case anyone is interested, Lawrence Lessig is running for president on a platform of campaign finance reform and Wikipedia has a reasonable page about his efforts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig_presidential_campaign,_2016  Also, John McAfee is running but it's quite unclear why or what he hopes to gain.
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> A.C.
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> On 09/21/2015 02:50 PM, ojo at sonic.net wrote:
>> Is it possible that the person elected president of the US could impact the Open Source Community and related issues?
>>
>> If so, who would be the best POTUS?
>>
>> Rand Paul (Libertarian)? Trump? Fiorina?
>>
>> Rand Paul would probably be the best POTUS for the Open Source Community because he would leave everyone alone to do their own thing.
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