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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision could mean the cap for how much money a single donor can give to state and local candidates would increase from $10,000 to $6.8 million, according to an elections watchdog group.

Current state law caps aggregate donations, or the amount one person can give to multiple candidates, political action committees and parties. It also limits how much an individual can contribute to each candidate, though it does not limit how much can be given to each PAC and political party outside the aggregate limits.

On April 2 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down aggregate limits for campaign donations to federal candidates. The 5-4 ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC doesn’t affect the current state limit, at least not yet.

But a coalition of more than 30 election watchdog, liberal advocacy, union and government reform groups is concerned the state’s aggregate limit is on the ropes.

Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said the aggregate limit is a big deal because it prevents what he described as “money laundering.”

“That truly is the limit that makes enforcement of all the other limits possible,” McCabe said.