Ajamu Baraka on Government Reform

Replace Electoral College with national popular vote

• Protect voters' rights by enforcing and expanding the constitutional right to vote (including a new amendment if necessary). Enact the full Voter's Bill of Rights guaranteeing each person's right to vote, the right to have our votes counted on hand-marked paper ballots, and the right to vote within systems that give each vote meaning.
• Make voter registration the responsibility of government, not a voluntary opt-in for citizens.
• Abolish the Electoral College and directly elect the President using a national popular vote with ranked-choice voting..
• Restore the right to run for office and eliminate unopposed races by removing ballot access barriers.
• Guarantee equal access to the debates to all ballot-qualified candidates.
• Reduce barriers to voting by making Election Day a national holiday.
• Enact simplified, safe same-day voter registration to the nation so that no qualified voter is barred from the polls.

Dead-end fear-mongering politics chooses lesser of 2 evils

Baraka says that the Green Party is an ideal hub for him to continue to work towards his objective of a radical, racial democratic governance that responds to the needs of the people, rather than ignore them as the two major political parties have historically done. "One of the reasons why I joined this campaign is that Jill Stein sees that in order to build this new movement in the U.S., that a critical component of that has to be the revitalized Black liberation movement, grounded in the working class," he added.

No religious oaths for public office, juries, or citizenship

We call for:
• Ending discriminatory federal, state, and local laws against particular religious beliefs, and non-belief.
• The US Constitution states that there shall be no religious test for public office. This requirement should apply to oaths for holding public office at any level, employment at all government levels, oaths for juries and witnesses in courts, and the oath for citizenship.
• Prosecution of hate crimes based on religious affiliation or practice.
• Elimination of displays of religious symbols, monuments, or statements on government buildings, property, web sites, money, or documents.
• Restoration of the Pledge of Allegiance to its pre-1954 version, eliminating the politically motivated addition of "under God."
• Ending religiously based curricula in government-funded public schools.
• Ending the use of religion as a justification to deny children necessary medical care or subject them to physical and emotional abuse.