American voters would want to see the option to donate cryptocurrency to a political candidate legalized.
1,023 registered US voters were surveyed by Clovr in a poll titled “Crypto and Politics: Voter’s Perception of Cryptocurrency and Politics”, with 54% of respondents believing digital assets to be safe enough for political donations. A majority of 60% said crypto and US dollar should be treated the same when it comes to political donations, with only 21% disagreeing.
“The funding of political campaigns in the U.S. has been a controversial and contentious issue for almost 190 years, dating back to the 1829 campaign of President Andrew Jackson,” said Clovr in the published results. “Now, cryptocurrency proponents are waging their own campaigns to allow digital currencies to be accepted and used in political campaigns, but their recent efforts have failed to advance the cause.”
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