Voter Owned Hawaii is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that is working to upgrade and modernize Hawaii's outdated partial public funding option for elections. Like many other states, we'd like to create a comprehensive public funding option so that candidates can attempt to qualify to get a competitive amount of money to run for office. More
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In the news
Jun 23, 2009
A full public funding option for elections, which would give candidates the choice either to run their campaigns with private money or to attempt to qualify for full public funding, is the deal of the century. Yet when it comes to the idea of a comprehensive public funding option, also known as "fair elections" or "clean elections," there are several popular misguided arguments for waiting to implement this important reform.
Mar 11, 2008
This is a prudent idea for what is essentially a test case. There is enough money in the Hawai'i Election Campaign Fund to cover the council race, making this a perfect year to pass the enabling legislation. Hawai'i Island and state election officials would have two years to prepare.
Feb 26, 2008
The legislation would use the Big Island's County Council vote in 2010 as a test case
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