2026 Leageu of Women Voters Questions
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The LWV publishes a voters guide each election. These are my responses without the 800 character limitation
What changes would you make, if any, to voting and elections policy?I would like to see ballots where only the candidates' names appear. no party affiliation, no incumbency.
Additionally, I do not believe the government should be paying the costs to run primaries for political parties.
I would like to see the nomination system changed. In the new system every voter that wants to participate can get a secure voter card, like the military CAC, that allows them to go online and nominate one candidate per office. Candidates would go to a board of elections website; create a profile for the office they desire and then convince people to go online and nominate them. Like the current petition system this would not be anonymous. The candidates with the 4 highest nominations would go to the primary and the top two would go to the general election.
Add to that a voter reference website that all voters can reference that includes two sections. The most important section is the publically verifiable section and the other section is one the candidate can use to promote the issues they would like to promote. The publically verifiable section will include an FBI background check, college and HS transcripts, SAT/ACT/GRE/Bar Exam scores, Licenses, Military DD214. The candidate section will allow the candidate to provide a biography and positions. This will allow voters a chance to see actual characteristic of their candidates while also providing an avenue for candidates to get known without having to beg for money.
How would you address concerns about the rising cost of living?
I am most concerned about the increase in utility and energy costs.
We have been talking electric grid concerns for at least a decade. As unintuitive as it may sound Texas has been a leader in adopting green energy technologies. This has helped stabilize the energy grid in that state.
Unfortunately, Ohio has lagged in this area. The new $33 billion 9.2-Gigawatt plant slated for Portsmouth will help ease the demands from a gigantic data center planned for that area. What people don't realize is that the cooling of thermal power plants like this uses over 40% of the total amount of water used in this country. We aren't going to get rid of fossil fuel-based power, but we can't be antagonist to green energy either.
How would you reduce hyperpartisanship and promote civility?
As relayed in the answer to the first question, I believe that eliminating party affiliation on the ballot would be helpful.
Hyperpartisanship is largely a result of politics being a way to make a living. That includes advertising agents, fund raising experts, website developers, pollsters and even news outlets. Those people's living depends on candidates getting campaign donations. The easiest way to separate voters from their money is to get them riled up. If I were to get elected despite not employing political professionals, note I don't ask for or accept monetary donations, this would help. Thanks for your vote.
We are the greatest nation in the world because Democrats and Republicans have traditionally been the same. It's time to get back to arguing over nuances.
State your position on foreign policy and national security.
From World War II up until now the United States was the country with the most influence. True there were some minor annoying decisions by United Nations sub organizations that did not go in our favor. These were minor decisions that had no influence on anything of substance for the country.
Over the past couple of years an unrealistic expectation that all countries should give the US everything we desire has resulted in our taking a bully position that has forced the subjugation of other nations. These negotiating tactics have been detrimental to our maintaining the influence we have traditionally enjoyed. Instead of those countries continuing to rely on us, which significantly contributed to our having the best standard of living, economically they will look elsewhere.
What changes would you make, if any, to immigration policy?
We don't need people stacked 100 deep at the boarder looking to enter the United States. We don't need ICE going to swearing in ceremonies to deport people that have legitimately made it that far into the citizenship process.
When I was in high school the US population was 220 million and movies like Soylent Green conveyed a warning of over population. Today the US population is around 340 million. Though we have proven we can adapt, I am not convinced our population needs to get bigger.
I am not interested in an immigration policy that promotes large numbers of people permanently settling in the United States nor am I interested in a policy that inhumanely treats those that are here.
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