The District of Columbia Board of Elections (BOE) is the independent agency of the District government responsible for the administration of elections, ballot access and voter registration. The BOE consists of three active board members, an executive director, a general counsel and a number of support staff who run the day-to-day operations of the agency.
Within the BOE is the Office of Campaign Finance which enforces DC laws related to campaign finance, lobbying and conduct of public officials.
The agency was formed by an act of Congress in 1955. [1] In 1974, Congress passed the District of Columbia Campaign Finance Reform and Conflict of Interest Act, renaming the body as the District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics (BOEE). [2] In 2012, the ethics board was separated. The district's 2012 ethics law established a new Board of Ethics and Government Accountability that would handle the ethical matters that were formerly handled by the Board of Elections & Ethics. [3]
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