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Recent annual reports, audited financial statements, and IRS Form 990s
Recent annual reports, audited financial statements, and IRS Form 990s
In the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, Congress mandated that GAO study the results of the unique public financing programs in Maine and Arizona. For the 2000 and 2002 elections in Maine and Arizona, this report provides both statistics on the number of candidates who chose to campaign with public funds and the number who were elected and observations, based on limited data, regarding the extent to which the goals of the public funding programs were met.
You can read the study here
In a series of First Amendment cases, the U.S. Supreme Court established that government may regulate campaign finance, but not if regulation imposes costs on ...
In 1998, Arizona voters passed the Citizens Clean Elections Act. Its purpose was to eliminate the alleged deleterious effect of private money on state politics: the ...
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