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The presidential election campaign fund checkoff appears on income tax return forms in the United States as the question "Do you want $3 of your federal tax to go to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund?". The indicated funds—originally $1 and implemented in 1966 and changed to $3 in 1994—began as a start to public funding of elections to provide for the financing of presidential primary and general-election campaigns, as well as national party conventions.

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