The Party System in America is a corrupt vehicle used by the wealthy and socially connected Elite to discourage and placate the Mass into inaction and acceptance of the status quo. Reform, or the political revolution if you will, is not going to happen by engaging in party politics alone.

Party politics won't even figure prominently: playing party politics is a distraction of the "rearranging deck chairs" variety. That isn't to say Party politics isn't useful, or that engagement on that front is not necessary. On the contrary it must be seen as an important part of the larger campaign for political reform.

Nor is it to say that we will ever be rid of political parties. That isn't the goal I have in mind. What will actually do more for more people is a legislative agenda, via referendums, initiatives, or similar mechanisms provided for in most states to the reduce the power and influence of party powers in governments.

This is an outline of items that can be made into campaigns on a state by state basis. I will put my money where my mouth is here: I will provide hosting and programming for campaign organizing websites (in any/all states) and, for California initiatives, I will put up the money ($2000, last I looked) to get one of them in the SoS vetting process. If anybody knows someone who has gone through this process and is interested in organizing a campaign, that's welcome, too.

Now to the agenda. These items are intended to each be useful on their own: enacting any one of them should be seen as progress, even if none of the others is enacted in a given cycle. In fact, some might not even be necessary (or might take a substantially different form) if others are enacted.

These proposals are in some respects reflected in organizations that already exist (e.g. fairvote.org), but I'd like to see more concerted and concrete state-wide and per-state action.

• Non-Partisan Voter Registration: Remove party affiliation from voter registration at all levels of government (this would effectively make all elections non-partisan)
• Automatic Voter Registration: Automatically enroll individuals as No Party Preference voters (unless previously indicated otherwise) upon reaching eligibility
• Same-day registration: Voters should be able to register to vote at a polling location on the day of the election.
• Multi-day voting: All elections should consist of a vote spanning at least one weekend day, and at least one non-weekend day on which an election occurs should be designated an official holiday
• Verifiable Vote: All votes should be cast with a verifiable paper trail, all ballots for a given election should be retained for at least 6 months following an election, and all should be open to public review.
• Multi-member Districts: Convert all state legislative districts to multi-member districts, each having an allotment of members elected at-large within the district with guaranteed election if a minimum vote percentage threshold is reached (e.g. in a five-seat district any person who reaches 17% of votes cast is guaranteed a seat).
• Runoff/Ranked voting: Depending on the character of elections (e.g. this will differ between single-member vs. multi-member districts), citizens should be able to rank their choices for office, and elections should consist of a top-N-advance Runoff style election