Connecticut’s Citizens' Election Program provides full public financing to qualified candidates for statewide offices and the General Assembly.      This voluntary program is the only statewide program of its kind in the U.S. to be created by legislative enactment, not public initiative and referendum. It is said to be the most comprehensive statewide plan in operation.   The plan, enacted in 2005 and implemented in 2008, was designed to encourage more citizen participation in elections and limit the role of private money in the state’s political process.  Like most such public-financing plans, it was enacted on the heels of a political scandal, this one leading to the resignation and jailing of the sitting governor.   To participate in the program, administered by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, candidates must agree to abide by certain contribution, expenditure, and disclosure requirements.       More information is available at the Commission’s website    Click on “Public Campaign Financing" at  http://www.ct.gov/seec/      Find other valuable details at these sites:       http://www.citizenselections.org/site/?c=ieJOIUOwEpH&b=3576139    http://www.ccag.net    http://www.publicampaign.org