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	Clean Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Clean elections is a system whereby voters finance the campaigns of qualified candidates who agree to spending limits and pledge not to take private donations.
		Clean elections allow any citizen to qualify for public funding to run for office and reduce the nearly absolute power of money and incumbency.
		Clean elections help leverage the vitality and fairness of democratic elections in South Carolina because any eligible citizen, regardless of personal wealth, can run for public office.
	www.scpronet.com /cleanelect.html (1108 words)

	Clean Elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clean Elections (also called Clean Money or Voter-Owned Elections) is a system of government financing of political campaigns (a form of campaign finance reform).
		Clean Elections was passed by the Connecticut state legislature and signed by the Governor in December of 2005.
		Clean Elections or Clean Money candidates are required to meet a certain qualification criterion, such as collecting a predetermined amount of signatures along with a small contribution (generally around $5) before the candidate can receive public support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean_Elections (694 words)

	Clean Elections - Citizen Action Group
		The Clean Elections Act is a comprehensive approach to campaign finance reform that will provide full public funding to candidates who agree to limit their spending and reject all private donations.
		Nearly 80% of Maine legislative candidates ran “clean” in the November 2004 general election, and 83% of the Maine Senate and 77% of the Maine House are composed of legislators who participated in the Clean Elections system.
		Clean Elections is a sensible approach to changing the status quo and moving toward a government that is more honest, open and accountable to the needs of all its citizens, not just a select few who can afford to make big contributions to candidates.
	www.wvcag.org /issues/clean_elections/index.htm (724 words)

	San Diego Neighborhoods for Clean Elections
		Clean elections represent a ray of hope in an otherwise bleak, business-as-usual political landscape.
		Clean, honest people who wish to serve as our elected officials can stay clean and honest and do the job the way it ought to be done.
		Clean money candidates receive dollar-for-dollar matching funds to respond to independent expenditures such as an attack ad or a mailer from an outside group that benefits their opponent.
	www.sdcleanelections.org /pages/letters.htm (3026 words)

	Clean Elections Institute Inc.
		On a daily basis, the non-partisan, non-profit Clean Elections Institute works to preserve, protect and defend Arizona’s groundbreaking, voter-approved Clean Elections Act at the legislature, in the media, in the community, in the courts and at the ballot.
		Clean Elections is a voter-approved campaign finance system for candidates seeking statewide and legislative offices.
		Lydia was a Clean Elections candidate for Senate in 2004.
	www.azclean.org /about.html (1014 words)

	New Rules Project - Governance - Campaign Finance Reform - Maine
		Participating Clean Money candidates are also given an additional one-for-one match if they are outspent by non-complying opponents or are the target of independent expenditures (such as ads produced by a group not associated with the opposing candidate).
		But in the case of the Maine Clean Election law the federal judge found that spending limits on candidates who accept public funding is not a free speech violation.
		Clean Election candidates won 53% of the races where a Clean Election candidate faced off against a privately funded candidate.
	www.newrules.org /gov/cleanME.html (735 words)

	Clean Elections - Publicly Funded Elections - Pennsylvania
		Clean Elections is a system of voluntary public financing of election campaigns in which any citizen who can demonstrate significant support in their community can receive public money to finance their campaign for public office.
		Clean Elections is already working in Arizona and Maine providing an alternative source of campaign funding for candidates who do not want to be dependent on favor seeking, self-interested lobbyists.
		Our current system of privately funded elections is fundamentally undemocratic because incumbent office holders have something that their challengers do not have; the ability to vote in Washington (or Harrisburg) on matters of great importance to the small number of self-interested people who finance our privately funded elections.
	www.cleanelectionspa.org (465 words)

	NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. Fixing Democracy: The Clean Election Movement \| PBS
		The Citizens Clean Elections Commission is a regulatory body established after Arizona voters passed the 1998 Citizens Clean Elections Act.
		The Clean Elections Institute "encourages participation in the electoral progress and seeks to build confidence in democratic institutions." The CEI Web site features general resource guides for the 2002 Arizona election, including information on candidates and general educational resources on the 1998 Clean Elections Act.
		Mass Voters for Clean Elections is a non-partisan grassroots organization in Massachusetts which is endeavoring to level the playing field of electoral politics by reducing the influence of special interest contributions.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/cleanelections.html (1084 words)

	The Massachusetts Clean Elections Law
		"Clean election funds", the funds distributed from the Massachusetts Clean Elections Fund by the director to certified candidates pursuant to sections 7, 8 and 11.
		"Election cycle", as applied to a candidate for a particular state office shall be the period beginning on the thirty-first day following a regular state election for that office and ending on the thirtieth day following the next state election for that office, inclusive.
		"Election year", as applied to a candidate for a particular state office shall be the calendar year during which a regular state election for that office is held.
	www.mass.gov /ocpf/cl_elec.htm (5440 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: A citizens' revolution for clean elections, new media
		Christine Gregoire has said that our recent election was "a model to the rest of the nation and the world." If what she meant is that the King County Elections Office is her model of how she plans to run the state of Washington, then we should all be worried.
		The only fair solution is to have a new, clean election so we all can know that whoever lives in our governor's mansion has a genuine mandate from a majority of the eligible voters.
		And if the elections that we have today aren't good enough to measure the will of the people within the margin of sloppiness, incompetence and illegal voting, then, no, we don't just suck it up for four years with a governor we don't want.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2002153970_sharkansky19.html (854 words)

	New Rules Project - Campaign Finance Reform - Clean Election Laws
		Connecticut's legislature passed a clean election bill in 2000 but it was vetoed by the governor.
		Maine's campaign finance law, known as the Clean Elections Act is different from those in other states because those who agree to accept public funding must forego any private contributions beyond a small amount of "seed money" and a number of $5 qualifying contributions.
		The Vermont clean election law offers a public financing option to candidates running for governor and lieutenant governor in the year 2000, and commissions a study to consider extending the option to other state offices after the 2000 elections.
	www.newrules.org /gov/clean.html (632 words)

	Congressman John F. Tierney -- Press Release
		The Clean Money, Clean Elections bill establishes a voluntary system that gives candidates an option for public financing and reduced rates and limitations on broadcast advertising in exchange for self-imposed limitations on campaign financing.
		The Clean Money system forces candidates to worry about public support, which is what they're supposed to be focused on in the first place.
		The Clean Money system won’t be 100 percent effective in preventing private money from getting around the system and influencing federal elections, but will eliminate participating candidates' dependence on direct contributions from big money contributors.
	www.house.gov /tierney/press/cleanmoneycleanelections01242006.shtml (1346 words)

	Wisconsin Clean Elections Coalition
		In the vast majority of legislative races, the primary is the main election, since a district may be overwhelmingly for one party.
		Clean Money candidates who have opponents who do not accept public grants and who raise more than the stated spending limits will receive additional matching grants up to 3 times the amount of the original grant.
		Clean Money candidate is the target of such ads, the candidate receives matching funds up to 3 times the amount of the original grant.
	www.wicleanelections.org /comparison-chart.html (1625 words)

	WANTED: Clean Money for Clean Elections - Planet Newsletter June 1999 - Sierra Club
		The new system will finance the Maine state legislative elections next year, and the Club's Maine Chapter is working with Maine Citizens for Clean Elections to ensure the system will be a success.
		Clean Money advocates scored major victories last year in Arizona and Massachusetts when voters approved Clean Elections initiatives.
		The Massachusetts initiative depends on legislative action to provide funding, so the Clean Elections coalition is now focusing intense grassroots pressure on lawmakers to include at least $10 million in the next state budget to fund the 2002 state elections, when the new system takes effect.
	www.sierraclub.org /planet/199905/clean.asp (689 words)

	ESR \| July 12, 2004 \| Cleaning up clean elections
		The stated goal of Clean Elections was to encourage more candidates to run for office and ultimately, elect officials who could vote their consciences rather than appease financial backers.
		Clean Elections proponents also believed that publicly financed campaigns would improve voter turnout.
		However, the GAO report revealed that voter turnout in "Arizona's 2000 election did not significantly differ from prior presidential election years." In fact, voter turnout was 42 percent in 1996, the last presidential election before the adoption of Clean Elections.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0704/0704cleanelections.htm (627 words)

	Hawai’i Clean Elections :: Honolulu Weekly
		Higgins says that clean elections would save money in the long term by cutting down on the wasteful spending that comes as a result when lawmakers allow private money to influence their decisions.
		Although supporters claim the clean elections bill would alter the political landscape, there is at least one thing it wouldn’t change—it would not eliminate a candidate’s right to collect private contributions.
		Currently, the clean elections bill (HB 1713) has been stalled in conference committee—which is closed to the public—since 2005.
	honoluluweekly.com /cover/2006/03/hawaii-clean-elections (1725 words)

	Citizens for Clean Elections in West Virginia
		By enacting a system of public financing for elections we can cut the ties between politicians and the big-money special interests and lobbyists who currently fund their campaigns.
		Under Clean Elections, qualified candidates who agree to forgo all private contributions and follow strict spending limits receive public financing for their campaigns, freeing them from having to chase campaign donations from big money special interests and lobbyists.
		Clean Elections has been in place in Arizona since 2000 and has already reshaped the state's politics.
	www.wvoter-owned.org (1126 words)

	clean elections by Micah Sifry- campaign finance reform
		To qualify, these “Clean Elections” candidates have to raise a large number of $5 contributions from voters in their district (the opposite of the system in most states, where candidates raise a small number of large contributions from a tiny, wealthy elite).
		Clean Elections is changing both the nature of campaigning and the dynamics of governing.
		Legislators from Maine and Arizona who participated in Clean Elections in 2000 say that the experience caused them to run campaigns that were more grass-roots oriented, and it has changed life in the statehouse.
	www.yesmagazine.org /article.asp?ID=571 (817 words)

	CNN.com - Keeping elections clean - Oct 11, 2004
		Voters in Arizona and Maine approved "Clean Elections" laws in the late 1990s, allowing candidates for state-level offices to receive full public funding for their campaigns.
		To qualify for public funding, a candidate would have to agree not to raise private funds, to limit spending of public funds and to prove he is not a fringe candidate by raising a number of very small (often $5) donations.
		Opponents of Clean Elections laws argue that this is a waste of taxpayer money, particularly as states struggle with budget deficits.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/10/11/Clean.Elections (735 words)

	sandiego.indymedia.org \| Why Clean Elections Help Minority Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If written poorly, Clean Election legislation can hurt minority parties; however, legislation in both the state of California and San Diego account for this concern and will offer much benefit to minority parties and to the political dialogue we hear during elections.
		Clean Election legislation, when written correctly, creates the opportunity for minority party candidates to gain access to a funding source that doesn't include censorship.
		Elections are inheritedly not clean since each group caters to their special interest friends.
	sandiego.indymedia.org /en/2006/02/113488.shtml (831 words)

	S.C. Clean Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		South Carolina Voters for Clean Elections is a nonpartisan coalition of advocacy groups, individuals and elected officials from across the state working together to reduce the influence money has on state politics and the making of public policy.
		In Maine's 2000 general election, almost a third of candidates chose to participate in the "clean election" program: 63 percent Democrats, 34 percent Republicans and 32 percent incumbents.
		South Carolina Voters for Clean Elections will be promoting a number of legislative initiatives in the coming year that will include a public referendum on clean elections.
	www.scpronet.com /cleanelections (334 words)

	TakeBackCA.org's blog \| Take Back California - Government Transparency and Donor-Free Election
		Clean elections laws now in place in Arizona, Maine, and other states have increased voter participation, made elections more competitive, inspired greater diversity of candidates, and reduced the influence of professional lobbyists.
		Clean Elections, a voluntary system of public funding of elections, remains the most effective method of reforming our broken campaign system.
		The Clean Elections system in CNAâ€™s measure is modeled after successful systems now in place in Arizona, Connecticut and Maine.
	www.takebackca.org (1002 words)

	Clean Elections RI \| About Us
		The “Clean Elections” system is designed to provide a clear alternative to the current system of raising and spending largely special-interest money to finance election campaigns.
		Primary funding -- Candidates who successfully qualify for Clean Elections funds and agree not to raise or spend private money during the primary and general election campaign periods receive a set amount of money from the Clean Elections fund.
		General election funding -- Candidates who win their party primaries and qualifying independent candidates who agree to the voluntary restrictions receive a set amount of general election funding from the Clean Elections fund.
	www.cleanelectionsri.org /about.htm (605 words)

	UHCAN Article 3/2003: Grassroots Movement for Clean Elections Is Pushing Ahead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Health care justice activists are well aware that campaign finance reform is integral to the achievement of comprehensive health care for all in the U.S. The deep pockets of the pharmaceutical and health care industries have been a major reason why meaningful health care reform has been stalled both nationally and in certain states.
		Fortunately, a grassroots movement to advance clean elections on a state-by-state basis is alive and well, having won "Clean Money/Clean Elections public financing systems" in Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont to date.
		As the law continues to work this year, the opponents of Clean Elections know their fight will be even harder.
	www.uhcan.org /files/money/elections.html (412 words)

	Clean Elections
		In the sectarian world of political reform, the clean elections movement makes a sound argument for its primacy in democratic reform efforts.
		Clean Money Campaign reform is working toward 100% public financing of elections at both the state and federal level.
		The clean elections movement represents an entirely new and different strand in traditional approaches to campaign finance reform both in terms the nature of the solution but more importantly in terms of the nature of the organizations that brought it into being.
	www.riles.org /musings31.htm (1017 words)

	San Diego Neighborhoods for Clean Elections
		Neighborhoods for Clean Elections is a coalition of neighborhood groups and leaders from every corner of San Diego: from Rancho Bernardo to San Yisdro, from Pacific Beach to Encanto.
		Clean Candidates will be designated as such on the ballot and in the voter pamphlet.
		Clean Elections measures are already in force in Arizona, Maine and in several cities across the country.
	www.sdcleanelections.org (228 words)

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