LD1912 - Clean Elections

(2018)

An Act To Prohibit Campaign Fundraising at the Voting Place

Sponsored by (Governor’s Bill) Sponsored by Representative Wayne Parry (R – Arundel)

What is the bill?

Clean Elections limits the ability of corporate money to influence elections and helps more working class people to run for office. A technical error in the form of a typo threatened Clean Elections funding for the 2018 election. A group of conservative legislators attempted to undermine the November elections by blocking a simple fix to this typo. LD 1912 was the attempt to fix this problem, which was blocked by a Republicans in the Maine House. Fortunately, the Maine Ethics Commission intervened and released the Clean Elections funds.

What happened?

Bill pending; Issue resolved by Ethics Commission

Votes