This week’s cartoon illustrates an unintended consequence of “clean elections” laws, based on the experience of some other states. Find the full cartoon in the Ketchikan Daily News, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, or next week in the Voice of the Times online.
Click here to read more about the Alaska Clean Elections Initiative.
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Where will Alaska’s “clean elections” funding come from if the voters initiative passes?
Here is the editorial cartoon as printed in the Ketchikan Daily News. Click on the image for the full cartoon.

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The Alaska Clean Elections Initiative will create more problems than it solves. The initiative attempts to take the influence of “special interests” out of the political election process by funding candidates using public funds and limiting private contributions.
But in doing so it takes grassroots politics out of the hands of citizens, creating a system [...]

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