On a 26-day book tour last month, Ben Carson held a news conference in a Books-a-Million store in Iowa, appeared often on TV to discuss his candidacy and sandwiched campaign rallies between book signings. Now a Democratic watchdog group has complained to the Federal Election Commission that Mr.Source: Ben Carson’s Book Tour Draws Campaign Finance Complaint...
San Francisco could have an open-source voting system in place by the November 2019 election, under a plan approved earlier this month by the Elections Commission. The timeline could result in the emergence of San Francisco as the leader of the open-source voting movement in the United States.Source: San Francisco sets sights on open source voting by November 2019...
The ban on "soft money" donations to state parties is on the line. WASHINGTON -- The next domino in the effort to erase campaign finance restrictions has just been pushed.Source: Next Chance To Gut Campaign Finance Law Heads For Supreme Court...
Hillary Clinton.Source: Super PACs, dark money and the Hillary Clinton campaign: Part 1...
A foundation financed by the billionaire investor Warren Buffet recently signed on as a member of the left’s leading donor club, according to internal documents, joining a handful of other new “partners” who will help bankroll liberal nonprofits, advocacy groups, and political vendors aheaSource: Warren Buffett-Funded Group Signs on as Democracy Alliance ‘Partner’...
Each failure to appear on a ballot undermines a candidate’s credibility as a national figure.Source: 2016 election : The ballot wars begin...
What do we know? What are the effects? What are the options? Download Full Report. The Campaign Finance Institute today released a new report written by Michael J. Malbin – CFI’s executive director and a professor of political science at the University at Albany (SUNY).Source: Citizen Funding for Elections...
It has become damn close to religion in Washington to assume that Donald Trump will, at some point not too far from now, flame out of the presidential race -- that he will start losing altitude in polls, get sick of the whole thing and return to the safe sinecure of Trump Inc.Source: Yes, Donald Trump could absolutely be the...
This story was cross-posted at Time.com. For two consultants working to help put Carly Fiorina in the White House, the legal firewall between campaign and super PAC must look more like a mirror.Source: Opaque payment streams for two top consultants to Fiorina groups...
It's great! Sean Trende and David Byler have done yeoman's work in not only putting this thing together, but in putting it out there for public consumption.Source: A Request: Don't Use the RCP Delegate Interactive Tool as a Mobile Brokered Convention Production Unit...
