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If the size of the U S Congress (either or both houses) and the number of Presidential Electors were to be increased, then voters should demand all ballot access voter censorship laws, which have entrenched incumbents of two particular parties, be replaced with a write-in only voter verifiable general election ballot – the Liberty Ballot. The Liberty Ballot would more accurately reveal the honest preferences of voters and if they really support two and only two parties to dominate the federal government.