MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Ethics Commission’s new dashboard tries to make campaign finance information more accessible to the public. As a reporter, I remember scraping through campaign finance reports under the old system, trying to find information about state legislative campaigns. Campaign finance information was uploaded via pdf. Blowback over erroneous campaign finance reports recently forced Lt. Gov. But the state should be lauded for trying to make campaign finance information — famously a shadowy process with plenty of loopholes — more accessible to the public.