11 of 12 candidates running for the state’s top appellate courts and four of six candidates running for eligible Council of State offices have qualified for public financing. These candidates will receive a public grant to run their general election campaign in exchange for agreeing to strict spending and fundraising limits, including a ban on fundraising between the primary and the general election.

This is a 67% participation rate for eligible Council of State candidates and a 92% participation rate for judicial candidates, a record for the program. In both programs there is broad participation among Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, men and women, and challengers and incumbents.

View the full list of candidates who qualified.

View NCVCE's Press Release on the candidates who qualified.

By a vote of 8-1 the town of Chapel Hill has approved a public financing plan for local elections.

Under the the new program, candidates running for town council and mayor would be able to receive a publicly-funded campaign financing grant if they collected a threshold of small dollar contributions and agreed to strict spending and fundraising limits.

This will help keep elections in Chapel Hill affordable and accessible and remove the perception that money is a determinant in the election process.

Click here for talking points on the proposal.

Click here to read the coalition's letter endorsing the CH proposal.

Click here to view the VOE proposal.

The Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals resoundingly affirmed the constitutionality of North Carolina’s judicial campaign public financing program today. .

In unambiguous terms the Fourth Circuit has found that North Carolina’s judicial public financing program is constitutional and consistent with the First Amendment protection of free speech

This is a huge victory for the campaign finance reform movement and should invigorate reform efforts throughout the country.

Click here to read NCVCE's Press Release.

Click here to view text of the ruling.

Click here more background information about the history of the case.

The 2007 HK on J Legislative Scorecard emphasizes the importance of campaign finance reform!

Their scorecard includes both the Council of State Voter-Owned Elections bill and the Chapel Hill authorization bill in its twelve vote assessment of General Assembly members.

Click here to view the HK on J Scorecard

Click here to see the General Assembly's overall grade on Election Reform

Click here to view the NC Voters for Clean Elections Scorecard, which evaluates all of the campaign finance reform votes of 2007.

Our '2007 Scorecard on Campaign Reform,' highlights both the money-in-politics scandals and reforms of this past year.

See which state legislators supported 'Voter-Owned Elections' reform legislation this year.

Click here to view the 2007 Scorecard

CLick here to read the press release

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