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Advocates push bill to require monthly reporting, bank depositories for ballot question campaigns
Summary
At a hearing of the Joint Committee on Election Laws, advocates urged lawmakers to require ballot question committees to use the state's depository system and file monthly disclosures to close an eight-month reporting gap.
At a hearing of the Joint Committee on Election Laws, witnesses urged lawmakers to require ballot question committees to report monthly and to use the state depository system so voters can see who funds campaigns earlier in the election cycle.
Supporters told the committee that current reporting leaves an eight-month window when millions of dollars flow into ballot campaigns without public disclosure. Jeff Foster, of Common Cause Massachusetts, described House Bill 868 and Senate Bill 507 as the “Ballot Spending and Transparency Act” and said the bill would move ballot question committees into the same bank depository system used by candidate committees so contributions and expenditures are reported…
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