"Voter-owned" elections are focus of Town Hall Meeting in Shoreline

Seven states and the city of Portland, Oregon, run public campaign financing systems, and some say it's time for King County to join the "voter-owned" elections movement.

The King County Council will hold its monthly Town Hall Meeting on Monday, May 19 to discuss the feasibility of creating a public campaign financing system for county offices.

The Shoreline Room of the Shoreline Conference Center, 18560 1st Ave. NE in Shoreline will host the Town Hall. The public is invited to meet face-to-face with King County Councilmembers at an informal reception starting at 6:00 p.m. The Town Hall will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Public campaign financing, or voter-owned elections, allows candidates to receive public funding for their campaigns once they demonstrate broad community support. A candidate must collect a set number of small "qualifying contributions" from voters in their district in order to become eligible to receive the public funds.

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