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Roll Call offers Loophole in 527s Shields Donors (paid subscripton required), which begins: “As Congress debates what to do about 527 groups, the independent political organizations that spent almost a half-billion dollars to influence the 2004 elections, an underlying assumption has been that while the groups raised unregulated soft money, at least their donor lists were public. But a review of disclosure forms required by the Internal Revenue Service reveals that contributors to 527s are able to withhold their names through a virtually unnoticed loophole. By simply writing

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