Under this law, candidates will face significant fines, ($1,000,000 or more), if their ads contain any information that is found to be false or misleading. This petition proposes that a bipartisan panel is created to study and "fact check" all ads.
This is important because as of this moment, candidates are not held accountable for their ads. The problem is that these ads do as they are intended, sway voter opinion one way or the other. If this petition is accepted, candidates will be helpd accountable for the information they pass on as fact.