Declining return on investment on digital list-building and concerns from surveys of donors have online fundraisers worried.Source: Billions at stake as online fundraising practices turn off voters....
The Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) partnered with Echelon Insights to assess voters’ beliefs about election integrity, with a focus on Republicans (GOP). The survey revealed that while confidence in the administration of the 2022 election overall is higher than in the 2020 election, with a marked improvement among GOP voters, perceptions of the 2020 election among GOP...
The state of Oklahoma has seen a significant influx of dark money in recent elections, and now the state's Republican Party chairman, A.J. Ferate, is calling for campaign finance reforms to help level the playing field between political parties and dark money groups. In a letter to the Oklahoma Ethics Commission, Ferate pointed to the more than $30 million in...
The American tech industry is the most innovative in the world. I’m proud of what it has accomplished, and of the many talented, committed people who work in this industry every day.Source: Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses....
The request came from a Republican loyalist calling on behalf of RedStone Strategies, which was described in an email to the donor as an “independent expenditure” group that was supporting Mr. Santos’s bid to flip a Democratic House seat in New York.Source: The Mysterious, Unregistered Fund That Raised Big Money for Santos....
Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor signed onto a federal challenge to a 2018 constitutional amendment, which created restrictions barring former elected officials from lobbying their former governmental bodies.Source: 'I'm being targeted': Proctor joins legal challenge to Florida amendment barring lobbying....
Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences, documents show.After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it wanted to scale back how much political content it showed users. The company went further than almost anyone knew.Source: Facebook Wanted Out of Politics. It Was Messier Than Anyone Expected.....
Making it easier to register to vote and obtain an absentee ballot, funding a system of publicly financed campaigns and launching automatic voter registration are among the measures New York officials are being urged to focus on to strengthen the state's voting infrastructure.Source: Officials urged to modernize New York's election systems....
As state legislatures begin their 2023 sessions, Americans should know what their states did in 2022 to improve or damage the integrity of the election process.Source: Election Integrity 2022 in Review: More Improvements Than Damage....
A group of Republican donors is calling for a change in leadership at the Republican National Committee (RNC), throwing their support behind attorney Harmeet Dhillon’s challenge to Chair Ronna McDaniel. The group of more than two dozen donors threw their support behind Dhillon in a letter to RNC members dated Monday and reported by Fox…Source: Group of GOP donors backing...
