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Candidate reports to be available online – sort of .
Despite three years of preparation , an online system for politicians to file campaign-finance reports won’t immediately have a search option for the public to see where politicians get their money and how it’s spent. More than 500 New Mexico candidates for county, legislative and statewide offices are supposed to file reports online for the first time today under a 2003 law. Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron said she hopes to have most of the reports available online by tonight, although without a search function, the Albuquerque Journal reported in a copyright story in Sunday’s editions. Vigil-Giron blames the delay on inadequate funding. She said the $120,000 appropriation wasn’t enough to start an online campaign-finance reporting system from scratch. “We were able to do what we did with the amount that was appropriated,” she said. “For us to build an electronic interactive system, it will take us a lot longer to build. The vendor is actually building the system.”
Hmmmmm......hmmm...Vendors make me nervous. Stay tuned.
