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   Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 05:13:22 JST Rasmus Fleischer

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   • Peter Levine

   @peterlevine Well, the secret ballot always have the same numerical value of "1 vote", while a donation, even through some clearinghouse, can have any value. That makes the monetary donation able to convey more information about the sender. Hard to see this hypothetical system as guarantying anonymity.

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     Peter Levine (peterlevine@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 05:13:23 JST Peter Levine

     At the Institute H21 symposium last week in Prague, Stein Ringen described his proposal for a campaign finance clearinghouse. I gather Ringen also defends this idea in _How Democracies Live_ (Chicago, 2022)

     The idea is that you could give money (up to the legal limit) to candidates, but you would have to make your contributions through a clearinghouse that would transmit the funds to your chosen recipients without telling them who gave them the money.

     More: https://peterlevine.ws/?p=30253