Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, one of the most outspoken members of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ in Congress, is facing fresh questions about a longstanding controversy regarding how her campaign raises money and how those funds have flowed to her daughter.Source: Maxine Waters hit with FEC complaint over mailer money...
More information leads to less corruption. The thought has been repeated so often, it must be true, right? Professor Michael Gilbert of the University of Virginia School of Law says the answer is not so clear.Source: Public Disclosure, Once Thought To Be a Cure-All, Can Lead to Corruption...
ALCOA, Tenn.—With more than a quarter of the current 23 House Republican women leaving Congress after this year, GOP women are working to replenish their ranks in primary elections like Thursday’s crowded showdown in this Knoxville district.Source: Republican Women Seek to Keep Numbers From Dwindling in the House...
Mission Viejo, California, a city in Orange County, will use cumulative voting for city council elections starting in 2020. See this story. Here is the wikipedia page about cumulative voting.Source: Mission Viejo, California, Will Use Cumulative Voting Starting in 2020...
The Institute for Free Speech is pleased to welcome Mike Columbo as a pro bono Senior Fellow. Mike is Of Counsel in the Political Law Section of the California law firm of Nielsen Merksamer.Source: IFS Welcomes Senior Fellow Mike Columbo...
Editors’ Note: Sean Parnell continues Histphil‘s forum on anonymous giving, making the affirmative, historical case.Source: The Historical Case for Charitable Donor Privacy...
Facebook said Tuesday that it had discovered a sophisticated coordinated disinformation operation on its platform involving 32 false pages and profiles engaging in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.Source: Facebook says it has uncovered a coordinated disinformation operation ahead of the 2018 midterm elections...
Can Americans protect their privacy and their elections at the same time? Cynical politicians around the country say no. The rest of us should know better. Privacy is a key component of democracy.Source: Protecting privacy of nonprofit donors is key to our democracy...
When Russian hackers targeted the staff of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., they took aim at maybe the most vulnerable sector of U.S. elections: campaigns.Source: Russian Hackers Targeted The Most Vulnerable Part Of U.S. Elections. Again....
Liberal activists, who were dramatically outspent in their last fight to fend off President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, are embracing a tactic that has been a mainstay of the conservative political playbook: tapping a war chest financed by unidentified donors to try to influence judicial nominSource: Liberal activists embrace ‘dark money’ in Supreme Court fight...
