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WYO Looks At Following the Money Trail Digitally

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008   

Cheyenne, WY – Wyoming may soon cross the digital divide when it comes to tracking campaign finances. A legislative committee is looking today at requiring candidates to file donation information online, instead of the paper documents that are now difficult for the public to access.

Dan Neal with the Equality State Policy Center says it would take the mystery out of tracking campaign finances.

"It would be a searchable database, and you could go in and look and get access to some pretty good information very easily."

Documents are now seen only by people who visit the Secretary of State's office and ask to go through the files.

Neal says most other states have digital filing systems, and the candidates like them as much as the public.

"What we hear from other states is that they get these things going, and they all want to show the public that their campaign's open and above board, and they're happy to show who's supporting them."

There are some concerns that not all Wyoming candidates are computer-savvy enough to file electronically.


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