We've always said Clean Elections systems can make elections about voters and volunteers, not donors and dollars. Washington resident and campaign volunteer Hugh Geenan sees firsthand the primacy of money in his state's elections and argues for the adoption of public financing of races in this op-ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.Geenan is concerned that the broad interests of the population are not given equal consideration when the campaign money race is dominated by a small slice of the population:  Elections currently are being paid for by one-quarter of 1 percent of eligible voters. The demographic of the current election-owning class, that is, those giving $200 or more for their candidates, is a white male of the business community. It strains credulity to expect that this narrow demographic might represent interests that cover the whole of U.S. society -- or of Seattle's. It doesn't have to be this way. And in many ways, we already have the answer: publicly owned elections. Indeed, it's time for Washington to join the seven states and two cities with Clean Elections laws on the books. Thanks to Hugh for encouraging candidates and the legislature to support progress in that direction.