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...
WASHINGTON The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S.Source: FBI examining fake documents targeting Clinton campaign: sources...
Pictures or it didn't happen. A ballot selfie is just the logical extension of that ironclad rule. A picture is an act of speech, and given our modern reliance on social media sites to disseminate all human information, a picture is among the only speech acts people will actually pay attention to.Source: Are Voting Booth Selfies Fun or Dangerous?...
OLYMPIA — In a historic decision, a Thurston County Superior Court judge today ordered the Grocery Manufacturers Association to pay $18 million in penalties and punitive damages, after Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit revealed GMA intentionally violated Washington campaign finance laws.Source: AG: Grocery Manufacturers Assoc. to pay $18M, largest campaign finance penalty in US history...
A bipartisan group of congressional members and candidates is filing a federal suit Friday against the Federal Election Commission, seeking to force the agency to act on a complaint it brought against 10 super PACs in July. The maneuver is part of a legal strategy aimed at rolling back SpeechNow.Source: Legal team seeking to undo super PACs files suit to...
If the polls closed right at this moment (which they won't) and if the results in each state perfectly mirrored the current RealClearPolitics average of polls in each state (which they won't), Hillary Clinton would be elected president by an electoral college margin of 8 votes.Source: Donald Trump has never been closer to the presidency than he is at this...
