Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

An interview with Dr. Jen Heerwig, co-author of a book researching how Seattle's pioneering program has helped boost voter participation and local representation

Proposition 1, funded through a property tax, gives Seattle residents four $25 vouchers to distribute to local candidates each election cycle.

Proposition 1 would continue nation's only public campaign financing system using vouchers

COMMENTARY | The publicly funded campaign finance program has brought tens of thousands more people into the city's political process.

Several donors benefited when former Gov. Cuomo killed the Moreland Commission, a state anti-corruption panel that was investigating them.

'He wants people that can disrupt alongside him'

Dr. Jennifer Heerwig researches all of the city’s election cycles, and says the program has diversified donor and candidate pools.