Law requiring campaign finance reports often ignored

Law requiring campaign finance reports often ignored

City clerks are required to collect campaign finance reports during local elections throughout Mississippi and deliver that information to Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s office, but Hosemann said he only receives the information sporadically.

The law is designed to create greater transparency in local elections, making it possible to see where a candidate for mayor or alderman has raised campaign money.

“We do train the municipal clerks and emphasize that they shall forward the copies. All of that said, we do not receive all of the filings,” Hosemann said.

AP
3/8/13