FAQs

The Party facilitates a contest elevating the best, not the best funded. The competition is fair, transparent and open to all, allowing new candidates to enter the arena.

If you’re wealthy enough to buy a seat in Congress, this isn’t for you.

Secure mobile voting technology exists and is in operation. In addition to commercially proven KYC (Know Your Customer) tech used to verify identity in financial applications, three organizations have developed secure tech platforms for mobile voting.

Both Secure Internet Voting (siv.org) and The Digital Democracy Project (thedigitaldemocracyproject.org) have built encrypted systems offering shortcuts to implementation. The Digital Democracy Project utilizes the app Voatz (voatz.com) which many states use for service members deployed in areas where they can’t submit a paper ballot.

Before certifying any results, the Party will provide officials to co-monitor and audit the data. Additionally, “Virtual polling locations” allow constituents to see those participating in their locale and flag citizens who may have moved or passed away.

Instead of wasting money on attack ads and systems that overflow your text messages and emails, the Party will invest its’ funds to ensure user security and data integrity.

The nominating process occurs “pre-candidacy”, so to comply with both Party rules and Federal election law, potential nominees simply need to use the platform for their campaign and not spend money.

Money used on advertising of any form outside of the portal will be easily detected and result in disqualification. Why should we tolerate unfairness in this competition when we don’t allow it anywhere else?

During the early rounds, constituents can endorse a “field” of potential nominees to ensure they advance all who share their views. More time will be spent examining profiles once there is a smaller set of choices.

Potential nominees are required to state their positions on key issues pending legislation. Constituents find matches based these positions.

Finally, the bar for gaining access to the platform is high. Potential nominees must submit financial disclosures, agree to background checks, and reach a minimum number of endorsements to qualify to run on the party platform.

Ours is a nominating system, not an election system. The Party uses it system to poll the constituents of each district to determine their nominee.

Affiliation is not required to participate and, depending on the state, may interfere with eligibility to vote in the public primary. So the Party intentionally has no membership.

Constituents are our customers and our product is a better system of determining who represents them.

Rich people can’t unfairly use their money to buy an elected office.

The candidate is chosen by the people before SuperPAC support is distributed for the general election, so no strings can be attached to the funding.

A local political committee will be formed in each district to manage the process. The committee will ensure that potential nominees meet Party qualifications and follow the rules.

Although much will be automated, the nominating committee will also support constituent registration and assure data integrity. Nominating committee staff will also support constituents without access or the ability to use the Party app.

The nominating committees operate as political committees and will require both paid staff and volunteers. These committees must be funded by individual donations not exceeding $5,000 per year per citizen.

America’s Main Street Party will target uncompetitive red and blue districts where demographic conditions create opportunities to challenge the incumbent party.

Once districts are selected, the Party commits to running in that district in every election cycle until conditions change either naturally or through redistricting.

Yes, the technology for facilitating a secure, online competition is well established. Development of the application will require customization and integration beyond the current functionality.

The 2028 election cycle may seem distant, but in order to launch in late 2027, funding from the public is needed immediately. DONATE TODAY!

Caucuses are ideological voting blocs within Congress. Each major party has multiple caucuses which divides their party into factions. There are also caucuses representing groups which may cross political party lines (i.e. regional, ethnic, religious, etc.). 

When candidates identify their caucuses, it offers constituents quick insight into their political leanings and enables them to tailor their platform to their district or state.

Although the focus is to disrupt in the United States Congress, the Party plans to design the app so the nominating system can be applied to the full gamut of federal, state, and local elections.

Intellectual property developed by America’s Main Street Party will be contributed to the public domain and available for use in these elections without a license fee.

The public primary system for President is even more archaic than the primaries used for Congress. Our nominating system easily adapts to incorporate the Presidential race.

Once a critical mass of users is established across all states, our method of reducing the field of potential world leaders will offer constituents multiple opportunities to weigh in. All citizens, regardless of the state they live in, will get to make the same choices.

When participation in our nomination exceeds that of the public primary, the America’s Main Street Party Presidential candidate is no longer a spoiler, but instead the front-runner.

Or, we could leave it up to New Hampshire and Iowa.