Green Party nominee Jill Stein will receive $2 million in refunds after initial estimates were well above the final costs of the failed presidential recount attempts in three battleground states, according to officials. Stein will use the leftover funds to launch a new voter integrity group.Source: Stein Final Recount Costs Below Estimates; Will Receive $2 Million Refund...
President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to shut down his charitable foundation, a decision that comes after repeated controversies over how it collected and disbursed funds.Source: Donald Trump plans to shut down his charitable foundation, which has been under scrutiny for months...
It’s safe to say that the 2016 presidential election was the most shocking in recent history. Donald Trump’s victory not only disproved most pollsters, it also debunked two popular political myths on both sides of the aisle. On the left, it debunked the myth that money buys elections.Source: Trump’s victory disproves these two big political myths...
IN early January, Seattle will start its first-in-the-nation “democracy vouchers” campaign-financing experiment, sending out about $50 million worth of vouchers to city voters.Source: Seattle’s ‘democracy vouchers’ are a recipe for campaign mischief...
Last week, Real Clear Politics extrapolated demographic trends to project which states are likely to gain or lose U.S. House seats in the reapportionment that will occur after the 2020 Census. Their forecast, shown below, has nine states losing one U.S. House seat and six states gaining seats.Source: Likely Changes in US House Seat Distribution for 2020...
House Republicans adopted a proposal by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte to put the Office of Congressional Ethics under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee. | AP PhotoSource: House Republicans gut their own oversight...
A bipartisan group of ethics advocates lobbed a second letter to President-elect Donald Trump Monday evening warning him that he needs to do more to separate himself from his family business interests.Source: Ethic advocates warn Trump that he needs to do more to divest from family business...
Over the 40-some years that I have been working or closely observing the political-campaign business, the rules of the game haven’t changed much.Source: How the Political Rules Changed in 2016...
In the middle of October, three weeks out from Election Day, Donald Trump’s campaign and allies finally started to reach parity on television advertising with Hillary Clinton. As the race grew tighter, Hillary Clinton was in need of new allies.Source: Trump SuperPAC Lawyer: 'CBS Censored Our TV Ads To Help Hillary Clinton'...
The seven so-called “faithless” votes cast by members of the Electoral College on Monday may go down as a noisy footnote to an otherwise chaotic 2016 election. But they also represent a historic breach between electors and the candidates they were expected to vote for.Source: Electoral College sees record-breaking defections...
