For voters looking for ways to improve our campaigns and elections and ensure that average Americans have a voice in our democracy, there are great opportunities to vote on ballot initiatives in some states, counties and cities on November 8.

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On Tuesday, May 15th e Campaign Legal Center hosted “Solutions for Pushing Stronger Ethics in Government,” a conversation on the current state of government ethics at the federal, state and local levels; and recommendations on how governments can work to strengthen ethics programs across the country...

If Will Rogers were still alive, he might remind his fellow Oklahoman, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, of the first law of holes: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”Instead, Pruitt has dug himself deep into an ethical pit.

Take a look at what made the list on CLC's Best and Worst Moments of 2015...

Last month, as politicos and policy wonks awaited the outcome of Congress' back room budget negotiations, rumors swirled around Washington over which last minute riders would make it into the final omnibus bill. Particularly troubling to many was a provision pushed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch...

The public deserves to know, now more than ever, why we can trust these candidates to address the outsized role of money in our political system. What, specifically, are Clinton and Trump going to do to fix the broken campaign finance system they are currently exploiting? 

In a panel discussion at Georgetown University Law Center last night hosted by DC Attorney General Karl Racine, Catie Kelley, State & Local Reform Program Director at the Campaign Legal Center, spoke about successful campaign finance models the District of Columbia can use to strengthen civic...

Both candidates say they will impose tighter restrictions on lobbyists, a central piece of democracy form.

Last night Jack Abramoff was the focus of a "60 Minutes" piece on CBS. After serving his time in a federal prison, the infamous lobbyist offers his take on the influence game in Washington which, he assures correspondent Lesley Stahl, "hasn't been cleaned up at all." 

The abuses of the earmark system has become so egregious that Congress is left with virtually no alternative but an outright ban on the unending stream of handouts to favored lobbyists and contributors.  But it didn’t have to be this way.