By Mitch Perry
A new report on Florida’s campaign finance laws says they seem to be designed to encourage money to flow into the more secretive and less transparent parts of the system.
“Florida’s political parties were exempted from the increased frequency of reporting requirements included in the 2013 campaign finance reform law so the unlimited contributions and expenditures by the parties are very difficult to track,” reads the report, written by Integrity Florida and the LeRoy Collins Institute, “The limits on direct contributions to candidates empower the outside committees and the political parties because they can accept unlimited contributions and better hide their spending.”
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