Fair Elections Links

Massachusetts Government

·  Find out who your elected officials are - A website run by the Secretary of the Commonwealth where you can look up your state and national elected officials, as well as your local polling place.

·  Register to vote! - Request a voter registration form from the through the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s website.

·  Massachusetts Government Portal - The official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

·  Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance - The website of the Office of Campaign and Political Finance, the independent state agency that administers the Massachusetts campaign finance laws.

Fair Elections / Clean Elections in Other States

• Clean Elections Institute, Arizona

• Common Cause Maine

• Vermont Public Interest Research Group

• Connecticut Citizen Action Group

• Citizen Action Illinois

• Democracy North Carolina

• Minnesota Fair and Clean Elections

• California Clean Money Campaign

• West Virginia Citizen Action Group, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

• New Mexico Finance Reform

• Hawaii Clean Elections

Other Massachusetts Organizations

• Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities - A non-profit organization whose purpose is to defend the economic, social, and democratic foundations upon which healthy communities are built.

• The Commonwealth Coalition - The Commonwealth Coalition is a coalition of 22 organizations working together to promote an agenda of progressive politics and democracy at the state level.

• The Center for Voting and Democracy - Dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.

Federal Government

• Federal Election Commission

• Library of Congress Legislative Information

• U.S. Senate

• U.S. House of Representatives

• Democratic National Committee

• Republican National Committee
  

Research Institutions, Public Interest Groups & References

• Alliance for Better Campaigns

• American University's Campaign Finance Site - Internet-accessible, database-formatted campaign finance files.

• The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center - Includes critiques from a campaign-finance perspective.

• The Center for Voting and Democracy - A Maryland-based non-profit, the Center for Voting and Democracy conducts research, analysis, education and advocacy to build understanding of and support for more democratic voting systems.

• Common Cause - Common Cause is a citizens' organization whose goal is to ensure open, honest, accountable and effective government at the federal, state, and local levels.

• Democracy Matters - Young people are showing up more and more in the ranks of campaign finance activism, another sign of new strength. Founded by NBA star Adonal Foyle, Democracy Matters was launched in 2001 to focus student interest in the issue. Since the start of the academic year, Democracy Matters students on 25 campuses nationwide have been raising awareness of the problem of private money dominating election campaigns.

• The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law - Brennan Center's democracy program supports campaign finance reform through scholarship, public education, and legal action, including litigation and legislative counseling at the federal, state, and local levels.

• Brookings Institution - campaign finance reform section

• Campaign Finance Information Center (a division of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting)

• Campaign Finance Institute - The Campaign Finance Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit institute, affiliated with The George Washington University, that conducts objective research and education, empanels task forces and makes recommendations for policy change in the field of campaign finance.

• The Cato Institute - A non-profit public policy research center based in Washington D.C.

• The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) at American University - CCPS provides an integrated teaching, research, and study program focusing on Congress and the presidency and the interactions of these two basic American institutions. Established in 1979, the Center provides a scholarly organization uniquely able to draw on its Washington, DC location in the very heart of the events shaping Congress and the presidency.

• Center for Public Integrity - Excellent in-depth research on a variety of money-in-politics-related subjects

• Center for Responsive Politics - In Public Campaign's admittedly biased opinion, the best source for campaign finance data

• Citizens Against Government Waste - A non-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government.

• Council on Government Ethics Law - A professional organization for government agencies, organizations, and individuals with responsibilities or interests in governmental ethics, elections, campaign finance, lobby laws and freedom of information.

• Columbia University Library / U. S. Government Documents, Campaigns and Elections - A selective guide to resources at Columbia University Libraries and on the Internet, for conducting research on federal campaigns and elections.

• DEMOS - An organization committed to a long-term effort to reframe and redesign policy and politics to meet the complex challenges of the 21st century.

• Moving Ideas - The leading source for progressive public policy on the internet.

• Environmental Working Group - The adverse affect of money in politics on environmental legislation

• Fannie Lou Hamer Project: Exciting new national group focusing on redefining campaign finance as a civil rights issue

• GrannyD.com - 90 year-old Doris "Granny D" Haddock walked thousands of miles from California to Washington, D.C., to raise public awareness for the need of campaign finance reform.

• League of Women Voters - The League of Women Voters encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

• The National Voting Rights Institute - Legal arguments for changing the current campaign finance system

• Northeast Action - Northeast Action is the regional hub and support center for a dynamic network of action organizations and coalitions in the six New England states and New York State.

• Public Campaign - Public Campaign is a non-profit organization dedicated to reform that reduces the role of special interest money in America's elections and the influence of big contributors in American politics.

• Public Citizen - National non-profit public interest organization

• University of Michigan Documents Center Federal Government Resources on the Web - Collection of Federal Government Resources by the University of Michigan library.

• Prof. Clyde Wilcox, author of a book on campaign finance.

• PoliticsNationwide

• Public Campaign’s Democracy Toolkit

• White House For Sale - A project of Public Citizen which fights for openness and democratic accountability in government and safe, effective, and affordable prescription drugs and health care.