New Hampshire's Citizen Funded Elections Task Force meets for the first time today to work on developing publicly financed elections for the state.

A government panel in New Hampshire recommends that the state implement a Clean Elections-style system for governor, executive council and state senate.

The candidate that spends the most (almost) always wins: another reason to implement Clean Elections.

This weekend Clean Elections was the talk of the town. A variety of newspapers ran stories and opinion editorials articulating the importance of publicly financed elections.

The New Hampshire commission formed this summer to put together a proposal for full public financing of campaigns for the state has been working away and this article gives an update on where the proposal stands.  Right now they're focusing in getting data on the cost of campaigning so they can make recommendations on the amount of funding candidates receive, and where that funding should come from.

The New Hampshire legislature voted a few months back for form a commission to study the feasibility of adopting a full public financing program for the state's elections. The people who will make up that commission have now been named, and many of them are familiar faces in the Clean Elections community.