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My latest op-ed (link below) summary:
Current campaign finance disclosure laws expose millions of Americans to danger. These laws reveal people’s political views in public online databases, often for contributions as small as a single dollar.
This is a threat that Federal Election Commission Commissioner @DaraLind, one of the agency’s Democratic members, described in detail last year.
At a time when political divisions run deep, outdated campaign finance laws pose obvious risks for Americans who support candidates and causes with modest gifts that pose no threat of corruption.
Solutions:
The FEC recently unanimously approved recommending that Congress prohibit the public disclosure of contributors’ street addresses. The address information would still be reported to the FEC but not be posted publicly. This reform would eliminate the location data that could facilitate violence or harassment.
Present rules also set disclosure thresholds far too low, so that concerns about “corruption” are absurd. The current $200 disclosure threshold went into effect over 45 years ago when these records were only in government filing cabinets.
If that threshold had been indexed to inflation, it would be over $800 today. Raise the thresholds.
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