Any of you know campaign finance laws or how to handle raising money to get on a ballot? Do the same regulations apply to gathering funds to register a candidate as apply to gathering funds for campaigning? I can't find anything at the county registrar's office on who can legally contribute to the $3,500 so I'm assuming that's open to anyone.
Also, several people have suggested that if I can raise money, but not enough to get on the ballot, that the money could be donated to the Mozilla Foundation or some other Mozilla-cause. I like that idea a lot. Any legal experts know if there'd be a problem with that?
It's on metafilter already! Thanks to Pete for the heads up.
update: It's been brought to my attention that Pete has also posted on the potential run, "What platform will he be running on? Many platforms! And most importantly the Mozilla platform!" and so has xsamplex "Pornstars, publishers, pundits and termintators, move aside..."
more: There's a mozillaZine discussion as well!
