Martha McDevitt-Pugh may vote in Oakland, but for the past 19 years she’s been filling out her ballot from her home in the Netherlands, one of a growing number of overseas Americans who are part of the Democratic Party.Source: How Democrats get out the vote — from overseas...
The hearing room sits empty at the Federal Election Commission's headquarters in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/CQ Roll Call file photo)Source: Could take FEC a while to regain a quorum, but don’t expect a ‘Wild West’...
Alexandria, VA – The largest state in the country has the nation’s lowest limits on donations to statewide candidates. In an amicus brief filed yesterday, the Institute for Free Speech asked the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging those limits as unconstitutional under the First Amendment.Source: Amicus Brief: Supreme Court Should Hear Alaska Contribution Limits Case...
Federal Election Commission Vice Chairman Matthew Petersen announced his resignation today.Source: Federal Election Commission to effectively shut down. Now what?...
The billionaire former investor is an unlikely populist, but he is poised to be a deeply disruptive figure in the Democratic primary.Source: Tom Steyer Is Spending Millions to Get Money Out of Politics...
When the Supreme Court reopens a new session in October, awaiting the Justices in the pile of work that built up over their summer recess will be a major constitutional case over how America elects its President.Source: Can states control how presidential electors vote?...
There have been at least three reports of voting machines in two counties changing voters' selections in the state's GOP governor primary runoff. In one case, the glitch was caught on video.Source: Election problems: Video, reports of machines automatically changing votes from Waller to Reeves...
"Training is at the heart of organizing. It’s why I’ve always made it a priority – from my 2008 campaign until now," Obama said in a tweet announcing Redistricting U, part of the All on the Line campaign.Source: Obama introduces new initiative in fight against gerrymandering...
The federal agency regulating campaign finance has been rendered powerless heading into the 2020 election cycle, with the resignation of another commissioner leaving it unable to punish violations of election law.Source: Campaign finance enforcer sidelined ahead of 2020 by resignations...
