Voter Owned Hawaii is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that is working to upgrade and modernize Hawaii's outdated partial public funding option for elections.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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This past legislative session, we were able to fend off legislation that would have postponed and likely terminated the Big island Fair Elections Act. Thank you for helping!

 

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Publicly funded vote due for a Big Isle test
Jun 25, 2009
HILO, Hawai'i — Hawai'i's first publicly funded elections will be tested on the Big Island next year.
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Big Island testing publicly funded elections
Jun 24, 2009

Candidates would be granted money based on a formula that considers the average amount spent by winning candidates in the last two County Council elections, minus 10 percent. Candidates wouldn't be allowed to accept any outside money.

The public funding program is capped at $300,000 for all races combined. There is about $5.5 million in the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund.

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Privately funded campaigns encouraged Wall St. meltdown
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.
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