16. A separate set of publicly selected Electors shall vote in accordance with the Twelfth and Twenty-Third Amendments.
17. The FEC will distribute to candidates (or their campaign accounts), upon written request, unused Available Funds and/or Accumulated Shares remaining in their account up to ten (10) business days after the election to pay for final campaign expenses, based upon the candidate's certified ac-counting and receipts for their actual final campaign expenses. The FEC will not fund a candidate's expenditures that exceed their total proportionate share of FEC allotments. Distributed funds that a Candidate (or their campaign) did not use must be returned to the FEC within ten (10) business days. The FEC shall make these final accountings available to the public within ten (10) business days. Undistributed funds after that 10-day period will remain with the Federal Election Commission.
18. A vote of five (5) of the Directors may remove a publicly funded elected legislator from Congressional office if it is proven that they willfully violated the terms of the program and misused or failed to account for over $5,000.00 of FEC funds. In the event this occurs, the FEC-funded candidate with the second-highest number of votes for the same office will be sworn into office. This may occur only once for each seat per election. Whether or not to pursue a criminal inquiry or prosecution remains with the affected jurisdiction.
19. If this program is adapted to other levels of government, the tax filer may direct the Internal Revenue Service to distribute specific contributions into those programs and/or to the State ac-count that is the donor's primary place of residence or doing business in the United States of America for apportionment between State, County, and local elections; for example: The Fair Elections Fund for the State of California, or The Fair Elections Fund for the City of Seattle, WA, etc.
20. Candidates for Federal offices not participating in this program, their campaigns, family, friends and associates, 501(c) Groups, 527 Groups, Non-Federal Groups, Political Action Committees and other special interests must submit certified accountings to the FEC reporting the true source and value of funds, gratuities, expenditures, services, or materiel for any kind of candidate-related political activity with a value in excess of $2,000.00 per contributor on the last business day of each calendar month beginning twenty (20) calendar months prior to Election Day, or proportionately adjusted for Special Elections. Non-compliance will result in a $20,000 fine and thirty (30) days imprisonment for those responsible for each quarterly failure to submit an accurate accounting of contributions to a campaign, candidate, or issue. The FEC will make this information available to the public within five (5) business days of receipt of a written request.
Please ask your legislators to put this plan into law.
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- Add Approval Voting (http://www.electology.org) to: 1) dilute the "spoiler" effect of more than two candidates, 2) identify the participating runner-up if the Directors remove a legislator under Paragraph 18, and 3) inform the Electors in Paragraph 16.
- Add digital records.
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