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New Rules

Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 19:51

On the campaign finance disclosure front a couple of states are looking to close some loopholes.  In California new ethics rules will require an explanation for luxury purchases made with campaign funds to ensure they're necessary for the candidate to do his or her job. Meanwhile, Utah is looking to clear up a worrying feature of their electronic campaign finance filing system that lets campaign edit and delete entries at will, with no record of it having been done.

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