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How to Win Friends and Influence Elections

Via National Journal

 

Campaign finance regulation is a maze. It’s a labyrinthine system with seemingly ever-changing rules for disclosure, donation limits, and what qualifies as “independent expenditures.”

A super PAC set up solely to support one candidate would swear that, no, it has no specific interest in one candidate over the other. This type of smoke-and-mirror show is exactly why trying to understand how campaigns are financed can be so vexing. Even campaign finance lawyers we spoke with for this story—people who deal with these regulations every day—have disagreements about how exactly to interpret, well, anything.

 

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