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Make public accountability data usable: searchable, machine-readable, complete enough to audit, and bounded by privacy, security, and law-enforcement limits.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Democrats often support campaign-finance disclosure, ethics reform, FOIA, and corporate ownership transparency, but can be less consistent when transparency exposes friendly institutions or administrative failures. Republicans often support oversight, spending transparency, anti-waste rhetoric, and deregulatory open-data claims, but can be selective when disclosure reaches donors, private contractors, or executive-branch allies. Beneficial ownership is where that selectivity has a specific bill behind it: H.R. 425, the Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act (Rep. Warren Davidson, R-OH, with more than 190 cosponsors), would repeal the Corporate Transparency Act's beneficial-ownership reporting outright rather than limit it to the highest-risk cases this issue proposes; the House Financial Services Committee advanced it on a 26-25 party-line vote in April 2026. The Innovation Party's delta is to move from selective transparency to data infrastructure: schemas, APIs, completeness, audit trails, public AI inventories, and enforcement regardless of which party benefits from opacity.
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