Pennsylvania candidates to be offered opportunity to support “Clean Elections” Clean Elections, a system of public funding for election campaigns, is already at work, in Arizona and Maine, providing an alternative source of campaign funds for both challengers and incumbents. Candidates who choose public funding are free of their dependency on lobbyists and special interest money. And, by leveling the playing field, Clean Elections promotes real competition on Election Day. National Groups ask Congressional Candidates to sign the “Voters First” Pledge Major Study of Public Financing Released