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Norse-Gael-Heathen t1_iu9df8s wrote

As someone who ran for congress on a minor party label in 2016, I can tell you that the entire federal campaign finance law system is geared towards helping major, highly-financed candidates and winnowing out independents and the "little guy." Big money candidates, of both parties, avoid the system entirely through the use of PACs that are not supposed to communicate with the campaign (Ha! Really?! Does anyone believe that?!).

Meanwhile, the forms one has to submit must be done online in a system that is wonky, complicated, and full of idiosyncracies. Many necessary entries functions actually lack buttons (you're just supposed to know that you have to click in an unmarked white space for it to come up), and it frequently times out or crashes while entering data. It is designed specifically to force you to hire someone who "knows the system" to make the entries.

While this is not directly related to what Liam did, it is an indication of the use of the federal laws to 'catch' the little guy or newbie while the major party candidates avoid the 'system.'

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