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Arizona "Clean and Accountable Elections" Act (2016)
| Arizona "Clean and Accountable Elections" Act | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
| Not on Ballot |
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
The "Clean and Accountable Elections" Act did not make the November 8, 2016, ballot in Arizona as an initiated state statute.
The measure would have required lobbyists to disclose all meals purchased for elected officials, bans lobbyist funded travel, and regulates additional campaign finance.[1]
Text of measure
Measure summary
The ballot measure summary was as follows:[1]
| “ | Requires lobbyists to disclose all meals purchased for elected officials and bans lobbyist funded travel or speaking engagements; improves Clean Elections funding for candidates, reforming initial funding and providing matching contributions from small donors; reduces contribution limits for nonparticipating candidates to $1000 for legislative and local candidates and $2500 for statewide candidates; requires corporations that spend more than $10,000 in elections to disclose high dollar donors; bans government contractors from contributing to candidates while negotiating or working under government contracts; prevents former government officials from representing clients before agencies and officials for two years after leaving their government positions.[2] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the measure can be found here.
Support
Arizonans for Clean and Accountable Elections submitted the proposed initiative.
Arguments in favor
Samantha Pstross, chair of Arizonans for Clean and Accountable Elections, said,[3]
| “ | I want my representatives to be thinking about me and my family and average Arizonans and not their donors.[2] | ” |
Path to the ballot
Arizonans for Clean and Accountable Elections filed the initiative application on April 26, 2016.[1] Initiative proponents needed to collect 150,642 signatures by July 7, 2016, to land the measure on the ballot. Arizonans for Clean and Accountable Elections suspended its signature gathering campaign, having gathered only about 100,000 signatures.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Arizona Secretary of State, "2016 Initiatives, referendums & recalls," accessed April 26, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ AZFamily.com, "Advocacy group files ballot measure to combat dark money," April 13, 2016
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