We would be better off if we were to be open about one dollar one vote — what H. L. Hunt proposed back in the 50s. Let the candidates collect their funds, turn the money over to the government, the one with the biggest package wins. No need for recounts, election frauds, etc.
25 – The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression
30 – Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society
Class Warfare in the Information Age
Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment
unsettling economics 
if it were so it would take the shame away. no more fig leaf of democracy.
here’s one i heard on the radio many years ago:
anyone may contribute any amount to any campaign.
they send it to the federal election commission which lumps it together with other donations and gives the money to the designee who doesn’t know who contributed the money.
in the past the person who raised and spent the most money hasn’t always won.
somewhere in the christian bible it says: the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong.
J. Paul Getty appended: “but that is the way to bet.”
Institutions reflect power, they don’t shape it. That’s a good example.