The electoral bedlam caused by the 2000 presidential election, and what threatened to be a democratic disaster in this election have resulted in an increasing call to amend the Constitution to either modify the electoral system, from winner take all to proportionate electoral votes, or to eliminate the electoral college and go with a popular vote for president.

Something needs to be done to update our political system. Here's a simple plan: Repeal the 12th Amendment electoral college. Amend the Constitution to establish secure voting networks connected to voters' homes, hold nonpartisan elections, and elect professional government managers instead of professional politicians, including the president. Truthfully informed voters would decide matters of public policy and taxation.

I know what's best for me, and I trust the collective judgment of my fellow citizens to decide what is best for all of us. That's real democracy.

Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
DDC

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Voters say no to power grab

Even though the social, political and economic manipulators and the hate-American wing of the Democratic party fought the dirty fight to seize the presidency in the November 2, 2004 election, the voters rejected "in-your-face" politics and said "NO," in no uncertain terms. The media-driven chaos of the nasty, condescending, undermining campaign simply didn't work. Despite the earmarks of a society confused by superficial selfish interests and extremes, this is still the America we value most.

Indeed, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack on our country, and the ongoing war against terror, the majority of people came together, stayed together and realized what it means to be citizens of the United States. They realized the value of security in these perilous times. They realized value of character, decency and morals, and importance of family values. And they re-discovered what it really means to live in "the land of the free and the home of the brave."

To ensure our future, we must scrap the costly, counter-productive, faction-ridden two-party system of elections and government that perpetuates civil war -- and requires our elected officials to abdicate their responsibility and accountability to the people because they have to campaign for re-election instead of representing the people -- and replace it with the nonpartisan democratic republic our Constitution intended then, and intends now with a comprehensive democracy.