Consultants close to the centre-right camp say that a system of false accounting was used to disguise campaign expenditure.

There were cases of serious fraud after postal voting was extended, big doubts about the accuracy of the electoral register and worries about the regulation of campaign expenditure.

King criticized such spending as a tidal wave of anonymous campaign expenditures that distort our political process.

It would have required additional disclosure by corporations of their campaign expenditures.

He ended his candidacy after questions were raised about campaign expenditures during his 2010 campaign for lieutenant governor.