Councilwoman: Make Campaign Finance Reports More Accessible
The Council also voted to defer naming a new President.
On the heels of a just-completed election campaign, Creve Coeur City Ward 4 Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades is asking what the city can do to encourage candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically. Rhoades spent time during Monday's city council meeting encouraging her colleagues to support measures that she said would make it easier for voters to vet candidates. The city cannot mandate electronic filing, but it is available to candidates throughout the state via the Missouri Ethics Commission. Ward 4 Councilman Scott Saunders equated it to using TurboTax. Rhoades said a county elections official told her 30 percent of local candidates do e-file their campaign finance reports. Rhoades argued that electronic filing and …
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Scott Simon
10:53 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I just tried to read some of the reports. My eyeballs are still spinning. Electronic reports are great. This is 2012 not 1912. more ›