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Still the Wild West? a 10-Year Look at Campaign Finance Reform in Illinois

 
 Volume/Number:  2006 September 
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 Description:  Kent Redfield used to tell a great story while on the speaking circuit in 1996. To describe a weakness in Illinois campaign finance laws, he explained that if a terrorist organization filed a routine semiannual report with the Illinois State Board of Elections and declared its purpose to be the assassination of public officials, the elections boards only role would be to make certain that the group had filed the paperwork properly. That's because the board had no authority to begin an investigation or to question what was in a candidates reports. Illinois laws regarding campaign finance disclosure had no teeth, and they had changed very little in the two decadessince being enacted in 1974. 
 Date Created:  10-06-2006 
 Agency ID:  Paper # 5 
 ISL ID:  000000054644   Original UID: 176054 FIRST WORD: Still