Clean Elections Screws Up and Must Do Better

The East Valley Tribune has an article about the Arizona Clean Elections Commission under reporting their spending by $2 million. Before anyone gets any crazy ideas, they made a spreadsheet error. The individual items were correct, but the totals were wrong. Given that it was likely a stupid error, it is still unacceptable.

Clean Elections has many powerful enemies and as a result must be extremely careful. It is amazing to me that they do not have an auditor to ensure their numbers balance. This is unacceptable, they must do better...

Changing Clean Elections

This article in the Arizona Republic outlines some of the changes to the Clean Election law. I don't know about you, but I don't trust the legislature when it comes to making changes to the Clean Elections law. It is no secret that Republicans have wanted to kill the law since voters approved it.

However, (and this is all the information offered) it is supposed to increase the amount of money for state-wide candidates and increase the contribution limit. Without more information it is hard to determine whether this was done right, but both things were probably necessary.