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### Background

- PAC: Political Action Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

- https://github.com/holographicio/awesome-token-sale

### Questions

- Is Civic PAC fundraising similar to e.g. a Crowdsale or a CappedCrowdsale or something else entirely, in terms of ERC20 OpenZeppelin solidity contracts?

- Would it be worth maintaining an additional contract for [PAC] "fundraising" with terminology that campaigns can understand; or a terminology map?

- Compared to just accepting donations at a wallet address, or just accepting credit/debt card donations, what are the risks of a token sale for a PAC?

--- Is there any way to check for donors' citizenship? (When/Where is it necessary to check donors' citizenship (with credit/debit cards or cryptocoins/cryptotokens?))

- Compared to just accepting donations at a wallet address, or just accepting credit/debt card donations, what are the costs of a token sale for a PAC?

--- How much gas would such a contract require?

- Compared to just accepting donations at a wallet address, or just accepting credit/debt card donations, what are the benefits of a token sale for a PAC?

---- Lower transaction fees than credit/debit cards?

---- Time limit (practicality, marketing)

---- Cap ("we only need this much")

---- Refunds in the event of […]

### Objectives

- Comply with all local campaign finance laws

--- Collect citizenship information for a Person

--- Collect citizenship information for an Organization 'person'

- Ensure that donations hold value

- Raise funds

- Raise funds up to a cap

- (Optionally?) collect names and contact information ( https://schema.org/Person https://schema.org/Organization )

- Optionally refund if the cap is not met

- Optionally change the cap midstream

- Optionally cancel for a specified string and/or URL reason




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