Sentence examples for electoral funds from inspiring English sources

To reduce the size of secret electoral funds, it limited authorized expenditures during election periods.

They contribute on a stupendous scale to the electoral funds of US politicians.

To replace corporate donations, last fall Congress created a new electoral fund.

The Australian Electoral Commission has doled out a total of $62.8m in public electoral funding, including $50.7m to Labor and the Coalition.

The commission has also withheld $4.38m in electoral funding until the party discloses the identity of the FEF donors.

As far as breaches of electoral funding laws are concerned, NSW Liberal senator Bill Heffernan proposed another remedy.

"This inquiry will expose the systematic subversion of the electoral funding laws of NSW," Watson, told Icac as the Operation Spicer hearings began.

The AEC valued each first preference vote at $2.49 and paid out a total of $58.1m in electoral funding to 12 political parties and nine independents.

The NSW premier, Mike Baird, said in March the party had done "the wrong thing" after the state's electoral commission ruled the donations had breached electoral funding laws.

On top of that, Telegraph columnist Miranda Devine recently wrote a piece about former NSW police minister Mike Gallacher bewailing his scrutiny as part of Spicer's electoral funding inquiry.

The electoral funding and disclosure reform bill requires charities to hold those donations in separate bank accounts to ensure they are not spent on advocacy.