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Albuquerque, New Mexico, Proposition 1, Changes to Candidate Public Financing Measure (November 2019)
| Proposition 1: Albuquerque Changes to Candidate Public Financing |
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| The basics |
| Election date: |
| November 5, 2019 |
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 Approved
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| Topic: |
| Local elections and campaigns |
| Related articles |
| Local elections and campaigns on the ballot November 5, 2019 ballot measures in New Mexico Bernalillo County, New Mexico ballot measures Local elections and campaigns on the ballot |
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| Albuquerque, New Mexico |
A charter amending concerning public financing was on the ballot for Albuquerque voters in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, on November 5, 2019. It was approved.
A yes vote was a vote in favor of making changes to the city's public financing program for candidates, including:
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| A no vote was a vote against this measure, thereby keeping the existing public financing laws. |
Proposition 1 was one of two ballot measures on the 2019 ballot in Albuquerque that was designed to make changes to the city's existing public financing system. The second ballot measure—Proposition 2—would have enacted a program called democracy dollars.
Election results
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Albuquerque Proposition 1 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
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46,647 | 57.87% | ||
| No | 33,953 | 42.13% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot question
The ballot question was as follows:[1]
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Shall the City of Albuquerque adopt the following amendments to update the language of the Open and Ethical Elections Code, which provides for public financing of City candidates: clarify the use of in-kind contributions, increase how much seed money a candidate can collect, provide definitions for “election cycle” and “candidate," require candidates to follow public financing contribution limits for one year before asking for public funds, increase funds for publically financed mayoral candidates and set a minimum distribution for council candidates in districts with fewer than 40,000 registered voters, enforce City Clerk’s administrative rules, and allow the City Council to amend the Open and Ethical Elections Code by ordinance with a vote of a majority plus two of the entire membership of the Council?[2] |
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Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing officials of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ City of Albuquerque, "Proposed Public Finance Updates," accessed October 9, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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