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The Orange County Democratic Party is hosting an information forum on Chapel Hill's new system of Voter Owned Elections. The party invites all residents to learn how potential candidates for public office can use this publicly financed system to help finance the costs of running for office. Introductory remarks will be made by Gene Nichol, former Dean of the UNC Law School. There will be additional presentations by Common Cause, Democracy North Carolina and a panel discussion.
The forum will be held Tuesday evening, June 23rd, at the Chapel Hill Town Council Chambers at 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., and will begin at 7pm. This event will last about an hour.
Carrboro residents are encouraged to attend as well to learn how this system works.
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Should be a great event
I'm really excited about this, and encourage you all to come!
This is a fabulous
This is a fabulous opportunity!
I might be able to make this tonight
I'd be interested in hearing more about how this whole voter owned election thing works. ------------------------- I just got back from this forum (& some grocery shopping), and found it pretty informative.Here are two sites they mentioned during the presentations that I plan to check out more later, but they said these would have the fine details on how everything works.http://www.democracy-nc.org/LocalVOE.shtmlhttp://www.sboe.state.nc.us/content.aspx?id=106 Here is a segment from an e-mail I got from the Orange County Democratic Party: "Forum on Voter Owned Elections at Chapel Hill Town Hall TonightChapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NCThe Orange County Democratic Party is hosting an information forumon Chapel Hill's new system of Voter Owned Elections. The party invitesall residents to learn how potential candidates for public office canuse this publicly financed system to help finance the costs of runningfor office. Introductory remarks will be made by Gene Nichol, formerDean of the UNC Law School. There will be additional presentations byCommon Cause, Democracy North Carolina and a panel discussion.The forum will be held Tuesday evening, June 23rd, at the ChapelHill Town Council Chambers at 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., andwill begin at 7pm. This event will last about an hour.The Town of Carrboro has asked the State Legislature for the rightto have Voter Owned Elections in their town, and Carrboro residents areencouraged to attend as well to learn how this system works.This year's Chapel Hill election is not merely a local issue -- itis important state-wide. The bill that would have extended publicfinancing was put on hold in the Senate because they wanted to see howthe Chapel Hill election goes. Please come to learn more about this essential issue." They said Chapel Hill is only the third municipality to take on this kind Voted Owner Election in the US, so not only does it have the eyes of the state legislature, but also the eyes of city governments everywhere considering going this route. I left this event really feeling like this is a good step towards good government & campaign finance reform.
OCD Party?
an unfortunate initialism that should be avoided- don't you think?