“Democracy vouchers coming to Seattle mailboxes soon”

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Democracy vouchers will soon be in the mail to registered voters in the city of Seattle, as part of a first of its kind campaign finance initiative launching next year.

“I made a lot of calls when I first started to other jurisdictions that had similar things, and there’s just nothing like this out there, so it’s actually been kind of exciting,” said René LeBeau, Seattle’s new democracy voucher program manager.

LeBeau, who works under the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission (SEEC), has been working on implementation for the past year, ever since Honest Elections I-122 was passed overwhelmingly by Seattle voters in 2015.

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