Elections Confidential

Elections Confidential reveals, to the extent possible, the dark side of the post-Citizens United election landscape. Secret donors used "dark money" groups that don't have to disclose their donors, because before Citizens United they weren't allowed to spend on elections in order to hide their identity. Despite widespread public support for disclo­sure and decades of legal precedent supporting the public’s right to know the sources of elec­tion-related spending, voters were bombarded with messages from secretly-funded, innocu­ously-named “dark money” non-profits that do not disclose their funding sources. Even those groups that do disclose their donors received millions from fake corporations that covered the money trail. Citizens United threw our existing campaign finance regulations into disarray and we need stronger, revised transparency laws to protect the public's right to follow the money and monitor who is working to shape our government.