North Carolina's election campaign council forbids donations of cryptocurrencies as part of funding for politicians' candidacy.
While the federal electoral commission has accepted Bitcoin and altcoins to federal office nominees in 2014, the state funding offices of America are free to set their own rules.
Difficulty in the evaluation
The politician also suggested some ways to evaluate donations in virtual currencies, expecting difficulties to emerge.Emmanuel Wilder, a Republican candidate in the US legislative elections, asked accepting cryptocurrencies as a means of donation to the State Council of Elections and Ethics of North Carolina earlier this year.
"I know it's new, but there's a great opportunity to show that North Carolina is really open to emerging markets," Wilder said in his email to the Elections Council.Wilder received the response from Kim Westbrook Strach, Executive Director of the State Council of Elections North Carolina, earlier this month.
She refused the politician's request because of the limitations of the regulation of campaign finance. The valuation of the cryptocurrencies can not be reliable according to its explanations reading as follows:
"We are not convinced that we could properly regulate contributions to a political campaign in North Carolina in the form of cryptocurrencies."Wilder highlighted the functional and practical contributions of Blockchain technology to public institutions and businesses in the country as an answer.
"Although this may not be the case today, there will be a day when this technology will have its place in the political process," he said.
The anonymous nature of crypto-currencies
US regulators and election campaigns have expressed concerns about the pseudo-anonymous nature of Bitcoin and altcoins.Jen Jones, spokesman for the regional election monitoring organization Democracy North Carolina considers that the Council of State should consider "whether it is possible for candidates to receive campaign donations in cryptocurrencies, while complying with the requirements of state disclosure. "
This is not the first time that a state refuses cryptocurrencies as a means of donation. Kansas has refused this practice in 2017.
A Missouri Republican candidate refused a donation of $ 130,276 in Bitcoin last June, as this amount exceeds the $ 5,000 limit . Meanwhile, Austin Petersen
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