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1 Written Testimony of Joanna Zdanys Counsel, Democracy Program, Submitted to the New York State Legislature at the Joint Legislative Budget Hearing concerning Local Government Officials and General Government, February 10, 2020 1 (2020)

handle is hein.brennan/wtjzdy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BRENNAN CENTER Written Testimony of Joanna Zdanys Counsel, Democracy Program Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law1 Submitted to the New York State Legislature at the Joint Legislative Budget Hearing Concerning Local Government Officials and General Government February 10, 2020 The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law welcomes the opportunity to testify in support of additional funding for the State Board of Elections (SBOE) in this year's budget to begin the critical work of building the infrastructure of New York's new small donor public financing program. Relatively modest start-up funds are crucial to delivering the program, which, if well implemented, will be lauded as a historic achievement and the nation's most powerful response to Citizens United. We urge you to provide the necessary funding in your legislative budgets and remedy the omission of this important need from the executive budget. I. A Historic Achievement for Campaign Finance Reform in New York Last year you helped to deliver long-overdue reform, when the New York State Public Campaign Financing Commission you enacted produced a small donor public financing plan for statewide and legislative elections.2 This is an extraordinary accomplishment. 1 The Brennan Center is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice and for nearly 25 years has studied, litigated, and drafted legislative solutions regarding money in politics. The opinions expressed in this testimony are only those of the Brennan Center and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the NYU School of Law. 2 By statute, the Commission's determinations took effect on December 22, 2019. See FY 2020 Budget Bill, S.1509C, Part XXX, § 1(a) (N.Y. 2019). Those recommendations also included unnecessary changes to ballot access requirements for independent and minor party candidates, which are unjustified by the Commission's stated rationale of keeping public financing costs low, as a recent Brennan Center analysis found. Brennan Center for Justice, Brennan Center Analysis of Minor Party Cost to Public Financing Programs, January 15, 2020, httjss iwwwbrennancent r.org/sites defaultiJles/2Q020- 01lBrennan %a2Cef I 2 A sis%2oYV 0MiY %2 r_4m )P 2 (st% 2 / )2' %)bic% 2'inancing21 20Pro Yam I. Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law 120 Broadway, Suite 1750 NewYork, NY 10271

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