State electoral disclosure provisions that require political parties to disclose gifts to State officials are not inconsistent with Commonwealth electoral disclosure provisions requiring disclosure to Commonwealth officials, even where the same payments may be caught by both regimes, because the two sets of provisions address different subject matters — State electoral integrity and Federal electoral integrity respectively. The higher Commonwealth disclosure threshold does not confer a general liberty on political parties not to disclose gifts of lesser value for State purposes.
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