Both Ohio and federal law already prohibit foreign interest from participating in candidate races. Therefore, this bill simply closes a finance campaign finance loophole for issue campaigns. This has been on the books for Federal law since 1972, I believe, on the books for Ohio law for candidate elections since 1999. And actually there's an Elections Commission opinion issued in 2021 that says that Ohio law already prohibits expenditures by groups that receive money from foreign nationals on issues campaigns, even though the same prohibition is already expressly in place for candidate elections. (00:12–00:21)
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