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Difficult to Track “Dark Money”

Difficult to Track “Dark Money”

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While candidates will have to update their campaign finance reports late next month, other political money is more difficult to track.

South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs says out of state organizations report to the Federal Election Commission, or sometimes not at all..

Krebs says state voters will decide on a campaign finance limiting question in November….

Krebs says while she has fourteen people on her staff in Pierre, only a small number are full time election workers…

Krebs says statewide and legislative candidates have to file their reports by October twenty second.

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