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No, quite literally not. The campaign team is a private organization, not subject to rules for hiring federal employees or spending tax money.

This is precisely the sort of shit that make people believe that the government is incompetent. It really is for certain undertakings that require some degree of operational flexibility.

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Wait, isn't the government the one who makes the rules? So if they made the rules that makes them incapable of doing things that they are supposed to do, while the people, technologies and ability to do the same thing is readily available and the same thing can be and is done by others - isn't that a very definition of incompetence? Not doing what is perfectly doable because of self-inflicted inhibitions?

It doesn't "make people believe", it is incompetent. And, unfortunately, the very capable and competent people are working hard at making it worse by electing exactly the people who would perpetuate and expand the problem.

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