The Secretary of State Project was one of the most successful campaigns of the 2006 election cycle.
A modest political investment in electing clean candidates to critical Secretary of State offices is an efficient way to protect the election. SoS Project donors helped elect reform candidates to the chief elections officer position in 5 key presidential battleground states – Ohio, Nevada, Minnesota, Iowa and New Mexico. We raised over $200,000 for Jennifer Brunner alone, replacing Ken Blackwell with one of the most progressive election officers in the nation.
Dollar for dollar, this effort will have a greater impact on the 2008 presidential election than any other effort in 2006.
Those who care about fair elections should know that the Project's startup and overhead costs are already fully funded, and the principal organizers are volunteers.
We are seeking donations to our strategic fund for three purposes:
- to support spreading the story to other donors through paid online marketing and activism campaigns
- where sufficient interest exists and state law allows, to establish state political committees that will conduct independent expenditure campaigns other than paid media.
- to build a reserve that can be deployed, where legally permissible, to benefit the races where it will matter most in the hectic final days before the 2007 and 2008 elections.
The Secretary of State Fund, a non-federal 527, can accept unlimited contributions.