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Scope and Contents Series 7 consists of materials related to OVEC’s Clean Elections (or Clean Money Election Reform) initiative. OVEC recognized that coal mine owners and operators, bankers, insurance executives, timber barons, and other industrial interests donated large sums of money to West Virginia political campaigns and in effect bought state level elections. Clean Money was a broad-based initiative intended to empower voters by removing big corporate money from politics and eliminating election buying,...