Federal Election Commission Should Reject Anti-Transparency Proposal

For generations, commonsense disclosure rules have let the American people know who is giving how much to which political candidates. That transparency is essential to our democracy — so that we know who the biggest spenders are and, in turn, who our politicians could be indebted to.

But one member of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) is proposing to make it easy for big campaign donors to evade this baseline level of transparency about money in politics. An FEC commissioner named Allen Dickerson is proposing to let big campaign contributors evade disclosure just by claiming they *might* be harassed over their election spending.

To the Federal Election Commission

Democracy without a system of meaningful disclosure of money in politics endangers the integrity of the political process. Disclosure of the sources of political spending is a necessary check on the power of money and bolsters the moral responsibility of citizens to stand behind their speech. The FEC should reject Commissioner Dickerson’s anti-transparency proposal.

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