Remember the “Honest Elections” initiative that Seattle passed into law last year? We don’t either. We endorsed the thing, but we still had to look it up in our archives. Turns out it’s the one that gave everyone in the city “democracy vouchers” that they could donate to candidates they like. Think food stamps but for elections—a baby step toward public funding of campaigns and a good way to make politicians pay attention to poors.

I-1464 takes that model and applies it to the entire state.

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