Resource Category: Elections

Personal Use of Campaign Contributions

Louisiana should strive for a campaign finance reporting and enforcement system that promotes compliance, sets a high ethical standard and provides clear procedures that are practical, consistent and transparent. These principles should be at the core of the current policy discussion about how political candidates and elected officials should be able to spend their campaign […]

Toward Stronger Ethics: The Next Steps Forward for Louisiana’s Ethics and Campaign Finance Laws

Louisiana should have strong and effective laws to ensure high standards for ethics and campaign finance disclosures. The system should foster compliance by helping prevent infractions and promote clarity and confidence in the laws and their enforcement.

Campaign Finance Disclosure Fact Sheet (Spanish), (Vietnamese)

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Amendment Elections Show Surprising Results, PAR Says

Louisiana voters approved three of the seven constitutional amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot. The three new amendments will impose term limits for certain board and commission members, require extra notice in advance of a special session and allow temporary successors to be appointed for legislators deployed to active military duty.

PAR Says Merit Selection of Judges Should Be Considered

Serious consideration should be given this legislative session to moving the state away from its current method of electing judges toward a merit-based system for selecting judges at the district court level and above. New data on judicial campaign finance and election results through the 2002 elections confirm past findings. PAR consistently finds troubling results […]

The Politics of Reform, PAR: 50 Years of Changing Louisiana

In The Politics of Reform, author and journalist John Maginnis traces a half century of PAR’s central role in major issues of our times–desegregation, public corruption, the new constitution, reapportionment, campaign finance and fiscal reform.

Merit Selection and Retention Elections for Judges; Legislative Bulletin, Vol. 43, No. 2

Currently, the state constitution requires that all judges be elected. When elections are uncontested, the candidate is declared the winner without ever appearing on the ballot. A 1996 study examined all Louisiana judicial elections at the district court level and above from 1990 to 1994.