The League of Women Voters and others will distribute candidate information.
Bored by its reform, or spooked by the criticism it provoked in many quarters, the government refused to distribute candidates' information with free mail-shots, insisting voters go to a tardily launched website instead.In the event, less than three-tenths of all candidates describe themselves as independents.
More than $2.6 million has already been distributed to candidates, and state officials expect that amount to at least double by Election Day.
In an interview, Mr. Colyandro said he believed that the committee was legally allowed to spend corporate money to raise other money that the committee collected and then distributed to candidates.
Poverty has made voters susceptible to bribery, according to the Research World International poll, with money or small gifts such as salt and soap distributed by candidates in exchange for votes.
NATIONAL An article on Friday about racial and class tensions in Anaheim, Calif., misstated the amount of money that the political action committee of the Disney-backed group Support Our Anaheim Resort area has distributed to candidates.
George McDonald, a Republican and the founder of the Doe Fund, proposed creating an inspector general for the City Council, and requiring that public matching funds distributed to candidates be spent only on voter contact.
The political action committees of the state parties and legislative leaders had raised an additional $18 million as of Oct. 15, though much of that has since been distributed to candidates, and other PAC's have been reporting on a rolling basis.
The findings from an examination of 288 pieces of campaign literature distributed by candidates for city council seats in 11 Ohio counties in November 1997, suggest that they perceive potential voters as being susceptible to both intellectual and emotional campaign messages.
However, the full potential of using only local refinements on very sparsely distributed starting candidates has not been investigated yet.
