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>Why are they not anonymous?

The concept of a nation-state depends upon closed-source sovereignty. Anonymous money could be coming from anyone or any foreign nation-state, thus usurping and subverting the sovereignty nation state.

However, this is a problem that already exists because it is easy enough for a foreign entity to use a third party shell to do this (i.e. AIPAC).

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What I mean is that it should be anonymous to the candidate. One way to accomplish that is to have all donations pass through a central fund that passes it on to the candidates. Some government organization could check whether the donation meets the rules and do something else with it when it doesn't.

That would make it an unaccountable black box, though. That would not be good in the interest of transparency. On the other hand, there are plenty of unaccountable black boxes already.

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