It鈥檚 possible that if you鈥檝e donated even as little as a dollar to a political candidate, it鈥檚 information easily obtained on the internet.
Federal law requires campaigns to disclose contributions of greater than $200. But online campaign fundraising conduits, such as ActBlue, are required to disclose the names and addresses of all donors.
That concerns , the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Professor and an associate professor of political science and business administration at the
鈥淐ampaign finance disclosure regulations are typically justified on the grounds that they prevent corruption or the appearance of corruption,鈥� Primo writes in published recently online and in print. 鈥淣o reasonable person, though, can argue that ActBlue鈥檚 disclosures accomplish any of those goals.鈥� The op-ed is part of the newspaper鈥檚 larger .
An expert on campaign finance, Primo is working on a book, Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press).
