WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The future of a much-criticized database that checks if voters are illegally registered in multiple states is up in the air after its patron, Kris Kobach, lost the Kansas race for governor and is out of elected office.Source: Kobach's defeat puts future of voter database in doubt...
An unknown super PAC that got the bulk of its funding from a similarly-named nonprofit spent more than $1 million dollars on a toss-up Senate race then promptly closed up shop less than a month after Election Day.Source: ‘Dark money’-fueled super PAC spent $1 million on Tennessee’s Senate race then shut down...
When Democrats reclaimed majority control of the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California this month, they had many choices on what to make their top legislative priority. It says a lot that the new majority made a bill to upend federal election law House Resolution 1.Source: Pelosi's election ‘reform’ encourages voter fraud to benefit Dems...
Countless pundits and politicians decry the landmark Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling for making federal elections murkier than ever, but nine years later, the impact of the 2010 Supreme Court decision has never been clearer. On Jan.Source: A look at the impact of Citizens United on its 9th anniversary...
President Donald Trump’s political team and top Republican officials have reached a landmark agreement to reshape the party’s fundraising apparatus and close the financial gap that devastated them in the midterms.Source: GOP reaches landmark agreement to juice small-dollar fundraising...
The partial government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, is affecting the Federal Election Commission’s ability to enforce campaign finance laws and investigate possible infractions, Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee wrote to the FEC on Wednesday.Source: Democrats seek FEC assurance on campaign finance oversight during shutdown...
To get the districts they wanted, Democrats organized groups that said they represented communities, but really represented the party. This spring, a group of California Democrats gathered at a modern, airy office building just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.Source: How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission...
LOS ANGELES—Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger agree: neither thinks Donald Trump has any business being anywhere near the White House, but the main political issue that they’re going to focus on for the next two years is redistricting reform. The clock is ticking.Source: Is This the Year for a Redistricting Revolution?...
The top Democrat on the House Administration Committee is closely monitoring the ongoing investigation in North Carolina's contested 9th Congressional District, advising the state elections board to “preserve and protect” all of the evidence it has gathered. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.Source: House Administration Democrats keeping close eye on North Carolina election...
In the unlikely event that one of Utah’s U.S. Senators were to not finish their term in office, the party that they belong to gets to nominate three possible replacements, with the final choice up to the governor. One Utah lawmaker says the legislature should play a role in picking a replacement.Source: Lawmaker says Legislature, not political parties, should pick...
