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Qualified candidates should receive free or significantly discounted media advertisements. They should also receive reduced postage for mailings.

Governments should set and strictly enforce limits on individual donations to campaigns. These limits should also apply to joint fundraising and bundled contributions. 

Federal, state, and local governments should maintain substantial penalties for violations of campaign finance laws.

Policymakers should expand disclosure requirements for all funds spent on elections or ballot initiatives.

Policymakers should protect against deceptive or misleading political fundraising practices. 

All voters should be able to cast an absentee ballot (known as no-excuse absentee voting or no-excuse vote-by-mail). Election officials should make absentee voting easy and convenient.

Elections should be administered in a transparent and nonpartisan manner. Poll workers should take training on best practices for ensuring nonpartisanship is upheld during elections.

In general, consumer protection laws and regulations should not preempt the ability of lower levels of government to put in place stronger consumer protections.

Consumers should have access to the full range of legal remedies when they have been harmed (see also Private Enfor

Government agencies should collect and report data for groups that are discriminated against, while ensuring consumer choice and control over what data they provide.