PPAU Crowdfunded AUD 10,000 for Their Upcoming Election | PirateTimes
PPAU Crowdfunded AUD 10,000 for Their Upcoming Election March 18, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News In a press release, the Pirate Party of Australia (PPAU) announced that on March 10th 2014 they met their campaign funding target for the upcoming Senate election in Western Australia. The senate seats are being re-contested on 5 April 2014 because ballots were lost in the 2013 elections and the courts ruled the election invalid. PPAU raised the extraordinary sum of AUD 10,000 (EUR 6,500) entirely through crowdfunding in just under two weeks. This was a risky move since a failure to reach the amount set as goal in the crowdfunding would result …