Clean elections

The presidential race is basically an expensive hiring process with 319 million stakeholders. If businesses and government agencies go to such great lengths to eliminate gender bias in their hiring, shouldn’t we do the same for our elections?

From campaign finance reform to protecting small business, Tuesday's elections had a few big victories.

Early results show Seattle passing the Honest Elections ballot initiative. Voters will receive four $25 “democracy vouchers” every election year, which they can donate to the campaign of their choice.

The McCutcheon decision will boost the political power of the one percent at the expense of the rest of us. But it also adds to the urgency of the movement that's working to take back our democracy.

In 2013, 46 states introduced 237 bills designed to make voting easier, while restrictive measures were introduced in only 33.