was an unintended result of changes to the Federal Election Campaign Act that allowed parties to raise and spend money on voter registration and other campaign materials without limits on spending or the size of contributions that they could accept.

soft money

Explanation:

Soft money is money that is donated to political parties where the purpose is not to promote a specific candidate

There are no limits on soft money and some examples are donations for posters, stickers, radio and television spots supporting a particular party platform or idea but not a concrete candidate.

Such donations in presidential elections amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.