• workerONE@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    People are allowed to create independent campaigns for candidates as long as they don’t coordinate with the official campaign. These independent campaigns can spend unlimited money and are protected by the first amendment since citizens united passed. But most people dont want to go through the hassle of creating a campaign.

    What Hawaii has done will stop PACs and is a big step to stop dark money.

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      6 days ago

      I am just saying what happened over the table will start happening under the table. I come from third world, I am just uttering what I see here

      • 7101334@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        And you’re almost certainly correct, but honestly that would still be an improvement to legalized corruption.

      • SeeSmudges@quokk.au
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        6 days ago

        so, organizing people and doing stuff like that under the table to get around limits and such is the basis of a lot of different crimes.