Why we won’t know who funds political conventions until right before Election Day

It will likely not be publicly known which groups funded the political conventions this election cycle until less than three weeks before Election Day in November.

Organizers of the Republican National Convention last month in Milwaukee and the Democratic National Convention set to take place next week in Chicago will not need to make their financial reports public until mid-October. While some donors have made themselves publicly known, the full scope of who and how much went into each convention is still unknown.