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Diagram by the Sunlight Foundation depicting the American campaign finance system. The financing of electoral campaigns in the United States happens at the federal, state, and local levels by contributions from individuals, corporations, political action committees, and sometimes the government.
Campaign finance laws in the United States have been a contentious political issue since the early days of the union. The most recent major federal law affecting campaign finance was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also known as "McCain-Feingold".
Other countries choose to use government funding to run campaigns. Funding campaigns from the government budget is widespread in South America and Europe. [10] The mechanisms for this can be quite varied, ranging from direct subsidy of political parties to government matching funds for certain types of private donations (often small donations) to exemption from fees of government services (e.g ...
The bill also requires the secretary of state to hire a full-time employee to provide outreach and education on the new law and to publicly release a list of the 100 largest contributors to ...
State political finance law requires the itemized disclosure of campaign contributions for any group opposing or promoting a ballot question or election. Likewise, individuals running for office ...
Under this system, the court reviews campaign finance laws under different types of scrutiny depending on what the law aims to restrict. Limits that affect campaign spending face the highest level ...
However, because of relatively recent changes to campaign finance laws (especially Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC among others), the fundraising by nominally independent committees will be especially [3] important in 2015 and 2016, perhaps outstripping money raised by the officially declared campaigns. [4]
The investigation – by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, the state’s official campaign finance watchdog – is looking to determine whether the committees and individuals associated ...