Arizona is stepping up on campaign finance
This could get interesting. The GOP in the state lied to keep it from passing but it got 73% in favor of disclosure of large donations of campaign cash.
PHOENIX — Voters in Arizona, sharply divided over which candidates should represent them, found broad agreement Tuesday on a different matter — those candidates should not take office propelled by major sums of undisclosed money.
That was the message sent by an emphatic victory for a ballot measure to curb undisclosed spending in political races, sometimes referred to as “dark money.” The money is veiled because it travels through nonprofits, which are exempt under current law from disclosing their donors.
The measure, Proposition 211, requires any group making independent expenditures of at least $50,000 in statewide races or $25,000 in other races to report donors contributing more than $5,000.
Voters favored that idea by a lopsided margin, with about 73 percent backing the measure based on ballots tabulated by Wednesday morning, prompting the Associated Press to declare the measure a winner. Only uncontested races and a handful of state legislative and judicial contests had wider margins in incomplete results.
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