Contributors to local political campaigns will now have to include a street address rather than just an email address, under a proposed change to the Longmont Fair Campaign Practices Act, or LFCPA.
The Longmont City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved adding the street address requirement and two other changes to the LFCPA. The proposed changes will improve openness and simplicity in Longmont elections, officials said Tuesday night.
The three changes will come back to the city council as ordinances to be formally approved within the next few weeks, City Clerk Dawn Quintana told the council.
The addition of the words street address in the ordinance would provide a clearer picture of the source of campaign dollars rather than just an email address, according to a staff report to the council.
Councilor Aren Rodriguez told the council in previous elections there has been out-of-state money coming into elections and contributors only provided an email address. The change requiring a street address “does provide some clarity,” Rodriguez said.
A second change to the LFCPA would add wording to include ballot measures in the Electioneering communication and Independent Expenditures reporting requirements, according to the city staff report.
A third change would allow the city clerk to offer a seven-day cure period to clear up apparent violations of the LFCPA.
… ”The vast majority of possible violations of the LFCPA are resolved by simply asking the person to fix the problem without the need for the issuance of a formal Notice of Violation,” the staff report states.
