Brief History of Clean Elections Victories

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The idea of publicly financed elections dates back to the early 20th century, when Progressive Era reformers sought to curb the undue political influence wielded by multimillionaires created during the nineteenth century’s industrial revolution.

It was not until the late 1990s, however, that a successful movement emerged for full public financing of elections. Since then, the movement has continued to grow vigorously. Some form of Clean Money, Clean Elections has passed in eight states and two municipalities—Maine, Vermont, Arizona, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Mexico, New Jersey, and Connecticut as well as Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Clean Elections remains law in all these places with the exception of Massachusetts:

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Brief History of Clean Elections Victories