Over the last three months, more than 100 million US voters have had their data exposed online. These data breaches weren’t caused by a sophisticated hack or malware. Instead, political campaigns' abysmal cybersecurity practices are to blame.Source: Political campaigns collect tons of data, but they’re terrible at protecting it...
Even the federal government says the director of a federal election agency erred when he allowed a group of red states to require proof of citizenship for those looking to vote. In a court filing Monday, the U.S.Source: Department of Justice disowns EAC director’s move on proof of citizenship for voters...
As Jeb Bush and his team laid plans for the Republican primaries, they set out to have the best-financed superPAC ever. And for a time, they did. Right to Rise USA raised $118 million, and spent $94 million, even as Bush never came close to winning a primary.Source: Where Did All That Jeb Bush SuperPAC Money Go?...
Donald Trump went after the family that owns the Chicago Cubs on Monday after campaign finance filings revealed that its matriarch, Marlene Ricketts, provided $3 million in seed money for a super PAC running attack ads against him.Source: Donald Trump warns owners of Chicago Cubs ‘better be careful’ after funding campaign against him...
What you’ve heard is true: There is indeed an underdog presidential candidate stoking a political revolution, luring the disaffected, disenfranchised, disengaged and demoralized off the sidelines and into voting booths. Only a year ago, few took this candidate seriously.Source: Who’s leading a voter revolution? Hint: It’s not Bernie Sanders....
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Monday released the first of three voter registration reports ahead of the June 7 primary election.Source: Independent Voters Will Soon Outnumber Republicans in California...
It’s one of the biggest mysteries in Republican circles: Why has Sheldon Adelson ― who spent upward of $100 million during the previous presidential campaign ― suddenly stopped pouring huge sums of money into politics?Source: Sheldon Adelson and the missing $100 million...
This Article has both positive and normative objectives.Source: Neutral Principles and Some Campaign Finance Problems...
With Jeb Bush‘s dismal finish in South Carolina comes his long overdue exit from the 2016 Republican primary contest for the presidency.Source: The Key Lesson from Jeb Bush’s Failed Campaign: You Still Can’t Buy Elections...
Elections are about choices. For many California voters, these choices are put in stark partisan terms: casting ballots strictly for all Democrats or all Republicans. But the state’s new open primary gave us a new twist.Source: CA120: When open primary voters tune out...
