Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b...
by michaelt on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:59AM
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You just have legally enforced spending limits.
Someone running for parliament in the UK, for example, is allowed to spend about $0.26 per voter † in an average constituency (of 72200 voters).
It's certainly not a perfect system, but it does mean if you earn £100k it's very easy to become an MP's largest donor.
† (The rules are more complicated than that, of course - there's separate spending by the national party, one free mailing by the royal mail, rules for tracking the equivalent value of volunteered professional services, and so on...)
Someone running for parliament in the UK, for example, is allowed to spend about $0.26 per voter † in an average constituency (of 72200 voters).
It's certainly not a perfect system, but it does mean if you earn £100k it's very easy to become an MP's largest donor.
† (The rules are more complicated than that, of course - there's separate spending by the national party, one free mailing by the royal mail, rules for tracking the equivalent value of volunteered professional services, and so on...)