A new poll from Public Policy Polling reveals that North Carolina voters want an expansion of the Voter Owned Elections system in their state.

New legislation has been introduced to the North Carolina House of Representatives that seeks to expand the existing Voter Owned Elections program.

Today a column in the Ashville Citizen-Times and an editorial in the Wilmington Star-News lauded the success of the North Carolina Voter-Owned Elections Pilot Program and urged its expansion to other statewide races.

Chase Foster of Democracy North Carolina writes in the Raleigh News & Observer that the presidential public financing system is "clunky, outmoded" but very necessary provided it gets some updates. Foster suggests looking to North Carolina's Voter Owned Elections and other full public financing programs at the state level as a guide for updates that keep candidates running with public financing competitive against those running with private money.

Maimounah Masudi praises the Fayetteville Observer in a letter for their support of the efforts to win and expand the Voter Owned Elections public financing program in North Carolina which Masudi says "is crucial to the election process, because it is designed to allow the average citizen to be put on a level playing field with big money donors."

Fifteen candidates running for office in North Carolina for offices eligible to participate in the Voter-Owned Elections full public financing program are running using the program. Candidates for Appellate and Supreme Court judgeships, as well as candidates for State Auditor, State Insurance Commissioner, and Superintendent of Public Instruction are eligible.