Red-boxing

[2]: 1907  After the election cycle, campaign operatives, PAC employees and party staff gathered to improve the way in which information was exchanged, settling on red boxes.

[2]: 1908  Because staff regularly switched between working for campaigns, PACs and party organisations, the information was easily disseminated and the practice developed and became an open secret.

[14] In a 2022 article in the American Bar Association's Human Rights Magazine, Paul M. Smith and Saurav Ghosh said that red-boxing and using "coded instructions" to direct the actions of super PACs amounted to "illegal coordination".

[19] However, complaints about illegal coordination between political campaigns and PACs involving public material posted online submitted to the Federal Election Commission have not resulted in any action.

[16] Hawaii Senate Bill 1212 which prohibited red-boxing under the state's campaign law was passed on January 25, 2023 but was amended in the committee stage so that it does not take effect until March 22, 2075.