he is welcome hans von spakovsky. [applause] >> so i am a lawyer, but i didn't go to harvard. as i can make some points? we used to refer to harvard when i was at mit as the little red schoolhouse down the road. last [laughter] i have to agree with a lot of things said here this morning particularly when teresa was talking about how horrible the federal campaign act is and how confusing it is and how difficult it is for an ordinary person to run for office. in his new book, the professor outlines many of these problems. he also talks about many of the restrictions on third parties caused by very difficult ballot access laws implemented by the states. he also complains about the federal public funding program which has most of you know is put in place about 30 years ago and points out the problems with those states like wisconsin that if put in state version of public funding for state legislative candidates. those funding programs have not achieved any of these supposed it purchasers of campaign reformers have used to push them. in fact, even under public funding laws, challen

i don't agree with most of what hans von spakovsky said and the solutions that have been proposed by either of these two gentlemen. i am a republic financing of campaigns. i am for proportional representation and runoff voting for i am poor choice maximizing systems on how we are able to select our candidates, and i'm not for corporations being able to dive back into people's districts and be able to finance and particular candidate. i don't believe they hold a same that we do as individuals and assert we don't have the right to vote, at least not yet. so i hope that will help inspire some questions and we'll talk about because we've sorted all don't agree on what the solutions are, even though some of us do agree on what the problems are. that's why people of all political stripes have to nod as in their own cultural cul-de-sacs, and come out and come talk at cato or come talk at other organizations. there are a number of organizations in this room, not only christina tobin with free and equal elections, but there is also represented here from fair folk, airboat their vote.org, and