"A piece appeared yesterday in The Pueblo-Chieftan, a news source serving Southern Colorado, that offers details of an informative report conducted by the Colorado Secretary of State's office that indicates small and grassroots political organizations suffer more than 'well-oiled political machines' due to the complexity of campaign finance laws currently in place. How did they determine these results? Their methodology was simple: they looked at who paid more in fines due to violations of these regulations.
“Our office did a study and looked at who pays campaign finance fines, who doesn’t, who violates the law a lot, things like that,” said Secretary of State Scott Gessler. “And the bottom line is this: Volunteers and grass-roots groups are far more likely to run afoul of the law because the law is so complex. Large, big-money groups are able to hire attorneys and accountants and pay very, very few fines.”"
Colorado Secretary of State Report Confirms Need for Simpler Campaign Finance Regs
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