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can you elaborate on this? in particular, why are state funds excluded?

• sokoloff 5y ago
  The comment makes sense to me if I read “state” as “government entity” rather than “individual state in the union”. Elections cost money to run, someone has to pay for that, so allowing funding but forcing all the money coming into the system to come from the government makes it harder for private individual or group X to subvert it in a “I scratch your back here and you remember this later” way. I suspect that first amendment will bar bans on advertising that would be necessary for this to be fully effective (without another amendment, of course), but a lot of progress is still possible without running afoul of 1A.