<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heydenberk</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone struggles to imagine how a better system would work. The issue is that the current Supreme Court has set strict limits on the legal regulation of campaign finance, so there are few straightforward paths to reform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nraynaud</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m wondering what his take on the French system is.
Basically, there is a limit on how much candidates can spend, and the State refunds the candidate (on certified expense report) if a certain score is reached during the vote. Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry Lessig’s Long Walk</title><url>https://medium.com/backchannel/larry-lessigs-long-walk-b96d80d34972</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>&amp;gt; Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.&lt;p&gt;FYI, the only one of those that is not a federal offense in the U.S. is spending too much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nraynaud</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m wondering what his take on the French system is.
Basically, there is a limit on how much candidates can spend, and the State refunds the candidate (on certified expense report) if a certain score is reached during the vote. Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry Lessig’s Long Walk</title><url>https://medium.com/backchannel/larry-lessigs-long-walk-b96d80d34972</url></story>