Candidates for the State Assembly and the State Senate, and committees supporting and opposing ballot propositions on the 2000 ballot, are disclosing their receipts and expenditures online for the first time this year. Political Parties, Political Action Committees and Major Donors who help finance campaigns, and Slate Mailer Organizations that are paid to promote candidates and issues, also are identified on this web site.
Similar information is available for lobbying activity.
It's all here on the Secretary of State's web site to assist California voters with critically important election decisions. For the past 25 years, California has had in place a campaign finance disclosure law requiring candidates and committees to make public their contributions and expenditures. In 1997, the State Legislature enacted a new law requiring that the information be transmitted to the Secretary of State electronically and that it be posted on the Internet for easy access to all California voters. This year's Primary Election marked the first time that mandated campaign finance information became available to computer users everywhere. Some others, with fewer receipts and expenditures, filed voluntarily.