Well all that is part of the way the system works. In reality it works like this, say you are a community activist with a bunch of years experience as a lawyer for the poor. You get your local political club's dissafected wing to help you get petitions signed to get on the ballot for the primary. When you get enough signatures you beg donations from friends and supporters, when you get enough to qualify for matching funds from the government you apply, at which time the front runner, a multi billionare running on his own funds challenges your signatures and funding in court to keep you from getting advertising money and keep you off the ballot... and you struggle to get on anyway, and then in the marginalised neighborhoods of your district the voting machines break down and the rich guy gets in. That is basicly how elections in the US work... or don't.... Cheers Larry