Yes, but the contributor can herself run those same ads, and to much greater
advantage, if she uses the entire amount.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ban@richardwinger.com" <richardwinger@yahoo.com>
To: "Marty Lederman" <marty.lederman@comcast.net>
Cc: <election-law_gl@majordomo.lls.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: campaigning to be a presidential elector

A candidate for presidential elector could run TV and
newspaper ads, advocating that voters vote for the
presidential candidate that that elector is pledged to
support in the electoral college.  The candidate for
elector is facilitating his or her own election, by
such advertising.

--- Marty Lederman <marty.lederman@comcast.net> wrote:

Please forgive me if this is a silly question, but
why would anyone give
such donations to the electors; that is to say,
what, exactly, would the
500+ electors be able to do with those $2000
donations that the contributor
herself could not do to much greater effect with the
combined funds?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ban@richardwinger.com"
<richardwinger@yahoo.com>
To: <election-law_gl@majordomo.lls.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: another loophole in federal donation limit?

Federal campaign law limits to $2,000 the amount

an

individual can donate to a candidate for federal
office.  Has anyone ever considered the idea that

a

candidate for presidential elector is (or is not)

a

candidate for federal office?  If so, since both

major

parties and a few minor parties typically have 538
candidates for presidential elector, a rich

individual

could perhaps donate $2,000 to each one of them,

for a

combined total of just over $1,000,000.

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