Crowdsourcing a viable write-in for U.S President

"We the people" can get better than we're getting, our nation deserves better, and the world expects more of us.

Let's pick a consensus alternative, get them registered, and write them in as President.

This process would produce a sovereign executive -

• with no fundraising => de facto campaign finance reform
• without campaign staff/office overhead
• with no back-room deals or kingmakers to pay back - beholden only to the electorate
• freed from party machinations/intrigue - no party to be apologist for, or act as head of, fundraise for, or shill for its candidates

elected by a sovereign people

• bypassing the sorry current political party choices
• rebuking and overcoming the pathologies of the status quo

Consider these characteristics for a viable consensus write-in candidate:

• Baseline constitutional requirements : age >34, natural born citizen, permanent US resident >13 years
• Never been a presidential candidate before
• A centrist - neither markedly Democrat or Republican, right nor left, conservative nor liberal, but a trustable moderate of wisdom and judgement that can be broadly supported
• Has sufficient public information available (warts and all) from which the electorate can adjudge fitness to task - crowd-vetted
• Willing to endure the harsh scrutiny attendant to this process.
• Sees it as a term of national service.

While the candidate should be acceptable to the massive middle, the process is sufficiently anti-establishment to enfranchise eg; Sanders or Trump or … supporters and disaffected voters.

Proposed initial (candidate?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(journalist)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/shields-and-brooks/

http://www.nytimes.com/column/david-brooks

Write-in references :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judy-frankel/how-to-be-a-writein-candi_b_9841786.html

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates#Requirements_for_write-in_candidates

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/21/1404380/-The-Write-In-Vote

http://writein2008.blogspot.com/

http://writeindependent.org/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2004-11-01/the-ins-and-outs-of-write-ins

Administrivia

• Don't waste scarce time bashing proposals - proffer well-argued alternatives instead
• Need by-state constraints and instructions for general election write-in voting
• Volunteers to do the footwork of preparing state-by-state registrations for our conscript(/tribute? :-) to sign/submit.
• To propose a nominee eg;

• curl --data "" --header "Nominor: m@i.l" --header "Nominee: http://i.nf/o" --url http://sovereign.org
• Header values - 64 bytes max each

[ http://sovereign.org - spotty ]

2016 October 26 : At this late date in this election cycle (write-in registration dates having come and gone), the McMullin/Finn ticket looks to be the closest viable option along these lines.