A report released on Thursday by the Information Office of China's State Council said financial threshold for participating in the elections in the United States has been rising.
"The 'cash race' has permeated various kinds of elections in the United States," said the report entitled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007."
The 2008 U.S. presidential election will be the most expensive race in history, the report quoted the French news agency AFP as saying.
The cost of the last presidential campaign in 2004, considered a peak for its time, was 693 million U.S. dollars. Common estimates of this year's total outlay have tended to come in at around 1 billion U.S dollars, the news agency said.
At least 10 of the 20-strong major party candidates who are seeking the U.S. presidency in general elections in 2008 are millionaires, according to a report by Spanish news agency EFE.
From 2005 to 2006, candidates for the U.S. state high courts collected more than 34 million U.S. dollars in campaign donations.
In a contest in Pennsylvania to elect two new members of the state Supreme Court, judicial candidates have broken state fundraising records, pulling down 6.8 million U.S. dollars, the report said, citing figures from the USA Today.
Source: Xinhua
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