Campaign finance reports are crucial to learning who’s funding elected office seekers. But new data shows Santa Clara County is rife with disregard for election transparency laws. Nearly 40 political campaign committees across the county have failed to file transparency reports by legal deadlines since 2018 — in many cases even after receiving two written warnings. Nearly 30 of those committees have been flagged to county prosecutors and state watchdogs for investigation, according to an August report from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. Many of those committees have failed to file on multiple occasions, with 80 total instances…
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