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-Section 1.
+===== Section 1. =====
+. The people of North Dakota need information to choose candidates for
+office, vote on ballot measures, and ensure that their representatives
+are accountable. This transparency must be sufficient to enable the
+people to make informed decisions and give proper weight to different
+speakers and messages. The people therefore have the right to know in a
+timely manner the source, quantity, timing, and nature of resources used
+to influence any statewide election, election for the legislative
+assembly, statewide ballot-issue election, and state government action.
+This right is essential to the rights of free speech, assembly, and
+petition guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
+United States and shall be construed broadly.
+. The legislative assembly shall implement and enforce this section by
+enacting, no more than three years after the effective date of this
+article, laws that require prompt, electronically accessible, plainly
+comprehensible, public disclosure of the ultimate and true source of
+funds spent in any medium, in an amount greater than two hundred
+dollars, adjusted for inflation, to influence any statewide election,
+election for the legislative assembly, statewide ballot-issue election,
+or to lobby or otherwise influence state government action. The
+legislative assembly shall have an ongoing duty to revise these laws as
+necessary to promote the purposes of this section in light of changes in
+technology and political practices. The legislative assembly shall vest
+by law one or more entities with authority to implement, interpret, and
+enforce this section and legislation enacted thereunder. If the laws or
+rules enacted or an implementation, interpretation, or enforcement
+action taken under this section fail to fully vindicate the rights
+provided in this section, a resident taxpayer may bring suit in the
+courts of this state to enforce such rights.
-. The people of North Dakota need information to choose candidates for office, vote on
-ballot  measures,  and  ensure  that  their  representatives  are  accountable.  This
-transparency must be sufficient to enable the people to make informed decisions and
-give proper weight to different speakers and messages. The people therefore have
-the  right  to  know in  a  timely  manner  the  source,  quantity,  timing,  and  nature  of
-resources  used  to  influence  any  statewide  election,  election  for  the  legislative
-assembly, statewide ballot-issue election, and state government action. This right is
-essential to the rights of free speech, assembly, and petition guaranteed by the First
-Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and shall be construed broadly.
-. The legislative assembly shall  implement and enforce this section by enacting, no
-more than three years after the effective date of this article, laws that require prompt,
-electronically  accessible,  plainly  comprehensible,  public  disclosure  of  the  ultimate
-and  true  source  of  funds  spent  in  any  medium,  in  an  amount  greater  than  two
-hundred dollars, adjusted for inflation, to influence any statewide election, election for
-the  legislative  assembly,  statewide  ballot-issue  election,  or  to  lobby or  otherwise
-influence state government action. The legislative assembly shall have an ongoing
-duty to revise these laws as necessary to promote the purposes of this section in light
-of changes in technology and political practices. The legislative assembly shall vest
-by law one or more entities with authority to implement, interpret, and enforce this
-section  and  legislation  enacted  thereunder.  If  the  laws  or  rules  enacted  or  an
-implementation, interpretation, or enforcement action taken under this section fail to
-fully vindicate the rights provided in this section, a resident taxpayer may bring suit in
-the courts of this state to enforce such rights.