Senate Electronic Campaign Filing Editorial

This editorial, "Dark Ages Disclosure" appeared in yesterday's Washington Post. "In an age when such reports can be filed with the click of a mouse, Senate candidates submit their disclosures on paper, with weeks of delay before they are transferred to a form available and searchable on the Internet. . . This delay is so obviously unjustified that we expected the legal glitch to be quickly fixed." It speaks of one clear-cut reform that the 109th Congress should pass before recess. S.1508 the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, for mandatory electronic filing of Senate campaign finance reports. This would make vital information accessible to the public.
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