Americans Elect will use a long series of competitions and online and offline convocations to select a candidate who will be beholden to millions of people at large, rather than to a smaller group of big donors whose interests the candidate must serve. Its plan is cunning: the original funders are being asked for loans, not donations; that way, they will have no further claim on Americans Elect after they are repaid.
&nbsp;“让美国人来选”将实施一长串的竞争和线上线下的集会，最终选举出一个能为数百万人负责，而不仅仅仅服务于一小撮大赞助者的候选人。其计划也相当周详：最初的资助者都是以借款而非赞助的形式；那么在还款之后他们也无法对“让美国人来选”运动有进一步要求（很显然，这些借款者自然也又会成为下一轮竞选活动的资金来源，但这意味着组织将会被借款者所把持，因此组织必须实施借助小额捐助来进行自我维持的策略）。