Keeping foreign funds from influencing our elections

It’s illegal for a candidate for office to accept foreign campaign contributions. But that rule doesn’t apply to campaigns to pass ballot initiatives, even though they’re also a crucial part of our democratic process.

We have a chance to change that. A new bipartisan federal bill would ensure that ballot questions are given the same protections against foreign influence as candidate elections.

Send an urgent message today telling your U.S. House representative to support the Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act.

When we step into the voting booth, we’re given the opportunity to not just help decide who will make our laws, but also to decide certain laws directly.

In other words, these initiatives are the people's way of making law where lawmakers have failed. They may not always be front-page news like candidate elections might be, but they’re just as important to ensuring that our democracy is as strong, fair and participatory as possible.

That’s why the current gap in federal law that leaves ballot initiatives vulnerable to illicit foreign contributions is so alarming. For our democracy to thrive, it’s just as important to prohibit foreign influence in this direct lawmaking process as it is in choosing our lawmakers.

Will you raise your voice to protect our democracy? Tell your U.S. House representative: We need to pass the Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act to keep our state and local elections free from foreign influence.