I want to be clear that I believe frequent reporting is impractical unless
the city/county had the software in place that makes that easy.
This isn't about volunteers in campaigns trying to figure out complex
computer/Internet issues....It's about the public sector recognizing that
this can be made easy if they had leaders who were really serious about
campaign finance reform.
This isn't new territory. Other cities are doing it, as you can see below.
Here's my understanding of what they do in Seattle:
Require electronic filing and frequent disclosure of campaign contributions.
>From July 1 to mid-October,
you must report all contributions for the preceding week every Friday.
Within the last 21 days you must report contributions aggregating over $500
within 24 hours of receiving them (law is found here:
http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/ethics/el01a/report/rules/el_law.htm)
San Francisco was the first jurisdiction in the world to mandate electronic
filing of campaign disclosure
reports. You can find recent filings on the San Francisco Ethics
Commission's Web site, at www.ci.sf.ca.us/ethics/finance.htm.
Both cases as I understand are made doable because they have simple software
to make it possible.
Again, isn't it time Minneapolis was a leader again instead of always
following good ideas from elsewhere?
R.T.Rybak
www.rtformayor.com
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