This Election Day will be different—regardless of how it ends. This time, for the first time, you won’t have to wait until the polls close to find out what happened while they were open.Source: Welcome to an Unprecedented Election Day Experiment...
In some states, two-thirds of voters have turned in their ballots. The surge suggests Americans particularly value their role in the electoral process when stakes are high. Every Election Day for as long as he can remember, Angel Del Carpio would head to the polls and cast his vote.Source: Why Americans are voting early, more often...
Source: Another Trump legacy: How we may be seeing the last of pols' tax returns...
Ellen L. Weintraub is a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission. What sentiment unites supporters of candidates as diverse as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders? Disgust with the way we fund our elections.Source: How to fix Congress? Make representatives accountable to voters....
Imagine you were just put in charge of a corporation with a $6 billion budget and more than 20,000 employees that had the ability to control $4 trillion in market activity.Source: This Congress has spent one million hours raising money...
Spoiler alert: This year’s election is getting even more pricey. We reran the numbers, and have a new-and-improved prediction for the total cost of the 2016 federal election: at least $6.9 billion, about $350 million more than we predicted last week.Source: UPDATE: Federal elections to cost just under $7 billion, CRP forecasts...
Remember these characters in American political history? As the presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton winds down, we’ve weathered more than a year of insults, accusations of lying, charges of sexual assault, and allegations of financial impropriety surrounding both canSource: The 8 Greatest Political Money Scandals in American History...
The attack was a distributed denial of service, in which a network of infected computers is directed to bombard its target with traffic and overload its servers 15.15 EDT Last modified on Thursday 3 November 2016 17.Source: Massive cyber-attack grinds Liberia's internet to a halt...
Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda C. Snipes agreed Wednesday evening to alter the way her office has gone about reviewing and opening tens of thousands of mail-in ballots after her methods were challenged by the Republican Party of Florida.Source: Broward elections supervisor resolves Republicans’ challenge over mail-in ballots...
Many K Street leaders view social media and digital advocacy, not traditional lobbying, as the fastest-growing segments of the influence industry, according to a recent survey of Washington lobbyists, lawyers, association executives and think tank leaders.Source: K Street says social media are growing faster than traditional lobbying as way to influence Washington...
