Foreigner wants other foreigners to mess with US elections

 NY Post:

Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire who’s “never felt the need to become an American,” is best known for routing hundreds of millions of dollars through the left’s dark-money network.

His goal? According to his sister: “(re)interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics.”

His funding is on shaky legal ground — and he just added “twice-accused sexual harasser” to his résumé.

It’s the second time in less than a year Elias is suing to help groups that are, as the Associated Press put it, “steering” Wyss’ wealth “into the world of American politics and policy.”

Federal law has long made it illegal for foreigners to contribute to candidates, political parties and super PACs. (Though that didn’t stop Wyss in the past.)

But there’s a loophole: Neither federal law nor most states’ laws protect ballot-measure campaigns from foreign nationals’ meddling.

Ballot measures seldom get as much attention as contentious races for Congress and the presidency, but they are critically important: They’re a tool intended to allow citizens to vote directly on a state or local policy matter, either by collecting signatures to get the measure on the ballot or by getting lawmakers to place it on the ballot.

They can affect everything from tax rates to abortion laws, and foreign billionaires like Wyss are generally free to finance them.

This loophole is so absurd that foreign nationals can fund campaigns to rewrite the rules of the very elections they’re banned from influencing.

Such ballot campaigns are seeing more and more foreign funding — which is why states across the country are fighting to close the loophole.

Sixteen are taking legislative action on it this session; seven passed bills this year, and another did last year.
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There is a saying in Texas, "Don't mess with Texas."  That should apply even more to foreigners.  Most Americans came here because they did not like how things were in their former country.  They certainly would not want them rigging our elections or changing the laws.