Electoral System Contribution

Electoral System Contribution
You may designate a contribution of five dollars ($5) or ten dollars ($10) if married and filing a joint return, to the account for the public financing of the electoral system. The first two dollars ($2) or four dollars ($4) if married and filing a joint return, up to a total of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) collectively for all parties and the nonpartisan account, shall be allocated only to political parties which at the preceding general election, nominated a candidate for governor and such candidate polled at least 5 per-cent of the entire vote cast in the state for governor. The remaining funds shall be allocated for the public financing of campaigns for governor.

An electoral system contribution will NOT increase your tax due or reduce your refund.

Designation of Political Party or Nonpartisan General Account
Make only one designation, either by naming a political party, or by checking the box for the nonpartisan general account. If you designate:

a political party which did not receive at least 5 percent of the entire vote for Governor in the pre-ceding general election,
a non-existent political party,
a particular office,
an individual officeholder or political figure or
a national party which is not a state party,

Your electoral system contribution will be credited to the nonpartisan general account. If you designate more than one political party or a political party and also the nonpartisan general account, your contribution will be credited to the first political party named.

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