“CFI Analysis: Washington’s Voucher Program Could be Transformative”

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Based on these scenarios CFI concludes that Initiative 1464 could well have a transformative effect on Washington politics. At a minimum, it would reduce the electoral importance of the business-oriented interest groups that give the bulk of campaign contributions today. In 2012 and 2014 non-party organizations (such as PACs, corporations and labor unions) gave more than half of the money that went directly to Washington’s state legislative candidates. With the system proposed in this initiative, CFI estimates that vouchers and small donors would become the most important sources of funding. Interest groups would not disappear, but their role would shift toward becoming donor-mobilizers rather than donors themselves.

Very interesting and encouraging report.

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