MONEY FOR ELECTIONS
PARTY FUNDS IN U.S.A. Both nationally and in most of the SfJates, tcorrupt-practices laws provide severe penalties for improper uses of money contributed for political purposes. It is a crime to bribe voters for example; to offer them jobs or other things of value in exchange for their support; to use intoxicating liquors; to influence them otherwise than through the norma!, public proccesses of persuasion. Statutory requirements for publicly reporting contributions received and the Tnanner in which the money is spent iii politics have tended also to check excesses in either direetion. Most of the funds contributed are used for newspaper advertising, radio broadcasts, printed matter, travel, telephone and telegraph charges, and maintenance of party headquarters.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 42, 29 October 1952, Page 5
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119MONEY FOR ELECTIONS Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 42, 29 October 1952, Page 5
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