Supporters have billed the initiative as a way to strike a blow against the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling.

With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has received support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.

The initiative prohibits what it describes as “artificial persons” — which includes corporations, nonprofits, trusts, partnerships, and trade associations — from giving money to political campaigns.

Supporters of the initiative have billed it as a way to strike a blow against the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which opened the door to unlimited campaign spending in US politics.

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[–] 3 points 3 days ago

Sounds nice but how much of campaign funding these days is done by "artificial persons"?

At least here we have disclosure laws where we see the top 3 donors to an ad and most of the time it's a real person who's just very rich, eg. Sergey brin donating $100 million to stop the billionaire tax. The one weird exception this time was open AI and anthropic supporting the local transit measure.

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