Ric Thornton aims to reduce the $6.2 million dollars worth of outstanding fines for missing or overdue state campaign finance reports by 25% by the end of the year.

The state campaign finance director doesn’t expect to convince former candidates and officeholders to make good on their six-figure debts. PBN Branded Content

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Instead, Thornton is invoking a new state regulation he helped create, which lets the R.I. Board of Elections cap fines on campaign finance violations and suspend the old accounts to stop late fees from accruing.

“More than 99 percent of the debt owed is aged over 120 days, so we’re on top of the current debt lev

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