Democracy & Public Integrity
- We support public campaign financing to end the current system of legalized bribery in which the political careers of elected officials are funded with private money collected largely from businesses and organizations with interests in legislation.
- We support application of the public meeting law to the Massachusetts Legislature.
- We support instant runoff voting to give voters choices at the polls and to ensure that candidates are elected with the approval of a majority of the voters.
- We support a goal of ensuring that essentially 100 per cent of legislative races in Massachusetts are contested instead of the current status quo in which two-thirds of legislators run unopposed, denying voters the ability to hold incumbents accountable at the polls.
