Subject: Comment on File Number 4-637

April 17, 2012

To the Securities and Exchange Commission,

IN A DEMOCRACY, BUYING VOTES is ILLEGAL!
SEC, you can stop this atroocity. You can require all publicly traded corporations to disclose PUBLICLY all their political spending.
Shareholders and the public should be informed about how much each corporation spends on buying advertising for COMPLIANT LEGISLATORS, and against NONCOMPLIANT LEGISLATORS .
Can you also publicize corporations' influence on local and state governments? What about corporations' influence on elected judges???
I would like to get answers to these 2 questions.

Thank you.

Patricia McCabe, OP

Columbus, OH