1. Develop publicly-owned, open source voting equipment and deploy it across the nation.

2. Establish guarantees that every citizen's vote counts, and that all U.S. voting systems—including electronic ones—are verifiable, transparent and accurate.

3. Establish a National Elections Commission with the mandate to establish minimum national election standards and uniformity.

4. Establish independent and transparent non-partisan redistricting processes to stop partisan gerrymandering and protect minority rights and representation.

5. Strengthen "sunshine laws" to provide citizens with all necessary information and access to their political system.

6. Ensure that all important federal, state and local government documents are on the Internet, especially texts of bills, searchable databases of voting records, draft committee and conference reports, and court decisions.

7. Reinvigorate the independent investigative agencies, such as the General Accounting Office and the inspectors general.

8. Enact tough new federal anti-bribery and gratuity laws to stop corporations and the wealthy from purchasing government action, and vigorously enforce of anti-corruption laws by the Justice Department.

9. Expand revolving-door lobbying "cooling off" periods for members of Congress and their top staff to at least two years.

10. Allow any member of Congress to require a floor vote on any congressional earmark, to stop wasteful spending.