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If voters approve, California could begin considering systems where taxpayer dollars help fund candidates for public office, which supporters say diminishes the power of wealthy donors to sway the outcome of races.

The cuts, totaling billions of dollars, affect states such as California, New York and Minnesota, as well as thirteen others.

“They don’t look at it the way we often do in health — ‘it’s X dollars more.’

Rather, the vetting had been done almost entirely by attorneys who stand to walk away with more than a billion dollars in fees.

Suppliers proffered various expensive goods, including a designer bag worth $2,290, three luxury watches each worth thousands, and numerous prepaid American Express gift cards totaling tens of thousands of dollars, the complaint said.