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WikiProject ArbCom Reform Party aims to reform the ArbCom system by selecting candidates who will run collectively based on a common candidate statement (the Reform Party program). Each candidate will ask voters to also vote for all the other candidates from the Reform Party. This way, voters can actually choose a new ArbCom system instead of just being able to select a few new candidates who in practice cannot do more than participate in the current system. The current system is kept in place by a few Arbitrators who always get elected, supplemented by a few who leave for a few years and then get back. ArbCom has become Wikipedia's politburo and this has to be changed.
After an election victory for the Reform Party, the elected Arbitrators will hear and conduct cases according to the rules in the Party Program. The new ArbCom system will have to be ratified by motions. Only if these motions pass will the new ArbCom system come into effect, so a large enough number of candidates need to be nominated by this WikiProject and some support from current Arbitrators may be needed. In case the motions do not pass, this WikiProject will continue with nominating candidates for the next elections so that the motions will pass the next time.
Community support for proposals for the Reform Party program and candidates will be gauged via RFCs.