In order to get started registering participants the website is currently keeping and displaying only the total number of participants on a national level, a national total of money pledged to be contributed to hundred dollar candidates in 2016 and the total amount pledged to fund Voucher Vendetta. Soon the website will keep and display a national total, state total and a total for each congressional district. The website will also display these totals as a percentage of total registered voters, a percentage of vote totals from 2012 and estimated voters for 2016. This will allow hundred dollar candidates to target congressional districts and states for senate contests where a competitive percentage of citizens are registered as participants.
The website will also list candidates that are running as hundred dollar candidates so participants in those congressional districts and or states for senate contests can decide if they want to support and/or contribute to these candidates. It will also help citizens in districts or states without hundred dollar candidates find competitive hundred dollar candidates from other districts and states for senate contests that they can contribute to in 2016.
The large contributors control our electoral process by creating the narrative that only candidates that take the large contributions can win an election. Voucher Vendetta will change the narrative to one where a candidate can’t win an election if they do take the large contributions.
By registering as a participant in Voucher Vendetta citizens will declare that in the 2016 elections they will only vote for candidates that finance their campaigns only with contributions from individuals in the aggregate amount of 200 dollars or less. When enough citizens are registered it won’t matter how much money the large contributors contribute because that money will no longer be able to buy enough votes to win an election.
Participants will also be able to register their intention to vote for and/or contribute to a hundred dollar candidate in their state for senate contests, congressional district or for president. This will help provide proof if the media tries to ignore hundred dollar candidates or downplay participation in Voucher Vendetta by manipulating polls.
For example, there could be a hundred dollar candidate in a congressional district with 30% of voters in their district registered on Voucher Vendetta as intending to vote for that candidate.The pollsters could survey what they consider likely voters, which might not include many of the voters registered on Voucher Vendetta. The polls might show much less than 30% support for the hundred dollar candidate which could give the media an excuse to ignore the hundred dollar candidate. We would be able to counteract that argument with real numbers against estimates derived from polls.
In states that also have elections for Governor or state legislators in 2016 citizens will be able to participate in Voucher Vendetta for their state elections when Voucher Vendetta gets large enough nationally to expand to those states for their state elections.