Senator Ben Allen – Winter Newsletter 2018-19

February 17, 2019February 17, 2019 Mark Drabkin 0 Comments

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Beach Cities Democrats has officially endorsed all four of the bills introduced this year by the California Clean Money Campaign:

SB 47, the Petition disclose Act(Allen)
Requires initiative signature-gatherers to show voters the top 3 funders of the signature-gathering effort.

SB 636, the Ballot Disclose Act(Stern)
Requires the ballots people vote on to list 3 supporters and opponents of each state ballot measure.

AB 1217, the Issue Ad Disclose Act(Mullin)
Requires lobbying issue ads and sham issue ads to clearly show their top 3 funders.

AB 1784, the Secure the VOTE Act (Santiago-Chiu-Gonzalez) & budget matching funds requests by Assemblymembers Santiago & Chiu and Senators Wiener & Allen.
Allocates up to $16 million in state matching funds to help counties develop, certify, and share publicly owned Open-Source Paper Ballot voting systems to count votes instead of secret corporate-owned voting systems.

For more information on the California Clean Money Campaign in general, and/or any of these bills in particular, please visit http://www.yesfairelections.org.