You’ve heard of the “margin of error” in polling. Just about every article on a new poll dutifully notes that the margin of error due to sampling is plus or minus three or four percentage points.Source: We Gave Four Good Pollsters the Same Raw Data. They Had Four Different Results....
California has more billionaires than any other state, and an abundance of direct democracy. Those two facts intersect during election season, when spending by wealthy donors helps determine which initiatives make it on the ballot, and how many TV commercials and mailers campaigns can buy.Source: Three multimillionaires stake a claim on California ballot...
Donald Trump is underwriting his presidential bid by selling the Donald Trump lifestyle _ and campaign finance records show it is working Sept. 20, 2016, at 4:11 a.m.Source: Gold cards and red hats: A Trumpian approach to fundraising...
The Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson is shifting tens of millions of dollars into groups backing congressional Republicans despite months of entreaties from allies of Donald J. Trump, according to several Republicans with knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s giving, dealing a major setback to Mr.Source: Sheldon Adelson Focuses on Congressional Races, Despite Donald Trump’s Pleas...
"The cases where we've had disagreements are based on a disagreement over what the law requires and prohibits, and there have been a number of court cases which have redefined the landscape in many significant ways," Petersen said. He did not deny voting as a bloc but disagreed the FEC was letting potential violators off the hook. “There's no signaling...
CREW argued that American Action Network and Americans for Job Security had violated federal campaign finance law and should be forced to disclose their donors. The court’s decision has the potential to stymie the avalanche of untraceable cash spent by Republican and Democratic donors during election years. “I think it's very significant,” said Larry Noble, general counsel of the non-partisan...
In early 2011, the Florida legislature passed HB 1355, which said that ballot-qualified parties could not place their presidential nominee on the ballot unless the FEC recognized that party as a “national committee”, or unless the party submitted a petition signed by 1% of the number of registeSource: Why the Florida Law, Requiring Qualified Parties to be Recognized by the...
The organization is under investigation for voter registration fraud fraud by Indiana State Police. The Indiana State Police are investigating what they say are fraudulent voter registration forms in Marion and Hendricks counties.Source: State Police investigating voter registration fraud...
ORLANDO, Fla. - There were 12 names listed on the ballot in Florida of candidates running for president in 2012. Eliminating Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the remaining 10 candidates amassed .9 percent of the vote.Source: 'It's corruption' says Independent Party presidential candidate after being kept off ballot...
In the fall of 2015 Harvard Law School kicked off a yearlong series of talks focusing on the discipline of Election Law, an area of law said to be concerned with ‘the law of politics and the politics of law.Source: Voting rights, big money and Citizens United : Scholars explore issues in election law...
