the Americans left Iraq to its own resources. That was the beginning of the end of Bush's dream, Three years later, the Shi-ite governments of Iraq and Iran united as the Federation of Islamic Umayya .
Elections in the Umayya were very different then elections in the USA. Everyone actually voted in Iraq-Iran, while the US had gone to proportional elections after the debacle of 2012 when no President could be elected. The US system also took advantage of the American system ... advertising, free enterprise, the free market ... all these had been built into the US system ...
The ELECTORAL LOTTERY
- All registered voters would be entered into a lottery.
- 200,000 winners would be selected as Presidential Electors, apportioned according to their State's population.
- Each elector would become eligible for a lottery award of up to $50 million dollars. Cost to tax payers: about $100,000,00 (before taxes, only 70 million afterwords).
- The Electors would save the candidates VAST amounts of money. Now they could focus their efforts on a few, identified people.
- Rules would have to be made about the amount of money to be paid for free trips to Disneyland or job offers. The rules used to regulate NCAA athletes might work here too!
- Electors could accept gifts of under $200 only from organizations not affiliated with any candidate.
- Opinion poller would not be allowed to ask Electors their opinions.
- violations of these rules would lead to large fines and replacement by alternate Electors.
- No Elector could serve in a consecutive Presidential election.
- On election day, the Electors would gather in each state at a time convenient for the entire country. Say 10 PM east coat time.
- The gathering would be in an appropriate arena or hall, so that all voting would be conducted in full public view.
- Each voter would have be given color coded pool balls, with pictures of the candidates on each ball ... say four balls. The Electors would line up and At the appropriate time, the balls would be dropped into a slot and tallied by a counting machine.
- The counting machine, also known as a Babbage, would be designed to create an appropriate visual effect. As the balls were sorted, they would fall into slots ... one slot per candidate. The TV cameras and the anchors would be free to observe this and estimate the final tally by looking at the 500 machines, nationwide, needed to tally the balls. (400 Electors per machine gives the right amount of suspense.)
- While the ballot balls were being tallied, as each elector passed his or ball into the slot, the system would identify the winners of the Lottery. This would provide continuous excitement as the balls were counted in a window on the TV screen. The fall of the balls would create wonderful sound effect.
- Additional prizes might be given to Electors by the parties or by merchants. E.g. Disney might award a free trip to Orlando for the youngest voter, Proctor and gamble might award cleanliness kits to all voters. The commercial value of these awards would go to the Federal government to help lower the cost of the lottery.
- Commercial break showing winner so if the major prizes.
- Then the big moment .. the count is over! Ladies and Gentleman, the balls have spoken!