In 1987 the Democratic and Republican parties created the Commission on Presidential Debates to regulate how presidential election debates in the United States are carried out. Previously, this was handled by the League of Women Voters and they withdrew their sponsorship of the new commission in 1988 stating, "the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter." Among the most controversial rules created by the Commission on Presidential Debates is the 15% national polling threshold for Independent candidates and candidates of other political parties. This rule was enacted in 2000 and has been followed by a period of poor political discourse, a concentration of power among the political elite of both parties, and now the two most unpopular major party candidates in history. This petition is a request to remove the polling threshold for Independent candidates and other party candidates to be included in presidential debates immediately and be replaced with other more reasonable criteria such as candidates being on a certain majority of state ballots and/or their organizational efforts to be established nationally. It is imperative that voices be given to other candidates for president in an election year where voters are most dissatisfied with the candidates for the Democratic and Republican parties.