This question became particularly relevant after the abuses of the Watergate affair came to light in the early 1970's, and prompted the first serious reform of the campaign finance system.

The Georgia Senate Tuesday approved a revamp of the state’s campaign finance system that would prohibit the State Ethics Commission from accepting complaints for two months be ...

Portland’s elected watchdog is pushing to upend significant portions of the city’s pioneering campaign finance law, alarming ...

General Fitch is hopeful that this year the Legislature will take up the campaign finance reform package she has put forward for the past two years to close the gaping holes in the system, streamline ...

The "beauty" of the campaign finance system -- if you're trying to use it to influence the actions of public officials -- is that nobody ever has to break the law for it to work. If you hand over ...

Tie votes -- which mean no action can be taken -- are commonplace at the agency on some of the most important issues. Thus the campaign finance system is riddled with loopholes. "Soft money" -- ...

For the first time, Virginia appears poised to embrace a campaign finance reform that has been proposed in some form every legislative session for more than a decade. On Tuesday, the state Senate and ...

Colorado's second-highest court agreed last week that the state's current method of adjudicating campaign finance complaints ...

State Crime Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, Special Issue on Migration and Racist State Violence (2022), pp. 237-257 (21 pages) Although the current campaign finance system in the US allows private donations ...

But what the probable-cause findings in Low's case demonstrate, McMorris said, is a potential for abuse of the state's campaign finance system. "This is an example of how nonprofits can be ...

General Fitch is hopeful that this year the Legislature will take up the campaign finance reform package she has put forward for the past two years to close the gaping holes in the system ...

A new proposal to change Georgia's campaign finance reporting could make it harder to find out where public officials live.