In the vast majority of elections, it's the simplest rule of all: You can only vote for one candidate. Make a mark beside the name of more than one person, and that vote doesn't count. Such mistakes are usually rare, which is what made California's U.S. Senate primary in 2016 so worrisome.Source: Tens of thousands of votes are in danger...
About 20 minutes before last Thursday’s deadline for candidates to withdraw from this year’s elections in Tennessee, state Republican Party chairman Scott Golden sent Secretary of State Tre Hargett a letter disqualifying Franklin’s Raeshawn Sanchez from the August 2nd primary.Source: Roy Exum: GOP's "Bad Business"...
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the leading Republican super PAC focused on the House, is booking $48 million in ad reservations ahead of the November midterm elections — giving its first indications of where it intends to focus its considerable resources this year.Source: Top GOP super PAC books $48 million in ads for House races...
Ann Ravel, the former Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission who controversially pushed to regulate the internet during her time leading the commission, is now suggesting a new government enforcement agency be established to help tech companies discover questionable communications frSource: Former FEC Chair Calls for Government Agency to Collect Social Media...
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company's insufficient efforts to protect users' personal data. In doing so, many of the senators betrayed a general lack of knowledge about how Facebook operates.Source: A Bunch of Senators Just Showed They Have No Idea How Facebook Works. They Want to Regulate...
Just hours before social media companies face a regulatory reckoning with Facebook’s appearance on the Hill, Twitter is taking a step to get right with Congress.Source: Twitter endorses the Honest Ads Act, a bill promoting political ad transparency...
Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, says after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's four hour-long grilling by Senate lawmakers on Tuesday, "this is really not an end but a beginning" for the social media site's work on ensuring data privacy for its millions of users.Source: Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Facebook hearing: "Not an end but a beginning"...
Five years into his jail sentence for corruption, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is down to his last appeal, now at the U.S. Supreme Court. His lawyers argue that improper jury instructions resulted in an unfair trial. They raise a vitally important First Amendment point.Source: Supreme Court can reinforce free speech with Rod Blagojevich case...
When you stretch the law to “get” a political opponent, it’s rarely possible to return the law to its original shape. Which brings us to Stormy Daniels.Source: Stormy Weather for Campaign-Finance Laws...
