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Your Right to Know: State Campaign Finance Site a Big Improvement
['Chali Pittman']
Urban Milwaukee
Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban MilwaukeeThe 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.
You can use the portal — at campaignfinance.wi.gov — to search for information on state candidates, including governor, attorney general and state legislator.
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.