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Campaign Contribution Reform

Why Is This Idea Important?: Politicians rely on individual voters to gain the office that they seek, but to gain these seats, the candidates rely on non-voting orginizations to gain funds to create the appearance of popular support amoung the voters, thus falsely advertising their appeal and becomming beholding to non-voting orginizations with direct conflicts with voter's interests.

Prohibit Campaign Contributions from non-voting organizations by requiring that funds be contributed by Natural individuals who are registered voters, limiting the maximum contribution to $5000.00 per voter, including the candidate, for any one election and requiring the funds be derived from the contributer's own income.

Submitted by we_spencer 2 years ago

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  1. debdaveandpets said:

    I would make it only $100.00 instead of $5000.00 making it $100.00 would give the poor chance to be heard.

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  2. doug said:

    Nice. Before seeing this I submitted a similar one (http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/5757-4049). In addition to your limits I would go a step further and require that all campaign contributions come from voters who are actually eligible to vote on the election in question. For example, Oregon politicians couldn't get money from California donors. Small town politicians couldn't have backers in a nearby city, etc. People's political contribution rights would be the same as their voting rights.

    2 years ago
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  3. we_spencer said:

    I agree to the additional restriction of voters who are actually eligible to vote on the election in question.

    I tried to revise, but the system returned an error twice.

    2 years ago
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