03 Sep

Thousands of dark ads ran on Facebook around the 2016 presidential election in the United States and the British referendum on leaving the European Union. Some ads delivered divisive messages aimed at specific audiences. Some ads circulated misinformation — or told people not to vote.Source: What’s wrong with Facebook, Google and Twitter’s measures to make political ads more transparent...

17:54 / Campaign Finance / dark money / disclosure / Technology / vblog
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03 Sep

More than two thirds of individual contributions to 2018 House candidates came from donors outside of the candidates' districts, and Democrats are out-raising Republicans, according to an Axios analysis of Federal Elections Commission data.Source: Most campaign contributions come from outside candidates' districts...

16:44 / 2018 / Campaign Finance / congress / vblog / y class
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03 Sep

[Y]ou have to wonder about the legal advice Cohen received when he pleaded guilty on the same day to two violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act – the law that governs the financing of federal elections campaigns.Source: Fox News: Michael Cohen and Trump did NOT violate campaign finance law – despite Cohen’s guilty plea (In the News)...

16:44 / Campaign Finance / Trump / vblog
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03 Sep

Got to give a lot of credit to these groups for making this conclusion, given the national stakes of fixing the partisan gerrymander in North Carolina’s congressional districts: The Court asked the parties to “file briefs addressing whether [it] should allow the State to conduct any future eleSource: Breaking : Common Cause, League of Women Voters, and NC Democratic Party...

16:44 / 2018 / Gerrymandering / Redistricting / vblog
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02 Sep

The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a grand jury must be convened to investigate whether Secretary of State Kris Kobach intentionally botched voter registration in the state in the 2016 elections.Source: A grand jury will investigate whether Kris Kobach intentionally botched voter registration in 2016...

17:29 / 2018 / election administration / Election Law / Elections / vblog / Voter Registration
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02 Sep

Donald Trump’s critics say his defense of hush payments to women who claim to have had sex with him betrays a misunderstanding of campaign finance law. If so, it is hard to see how the president could have “knowingly and willfully” violated the law, as required for a criminal conviction.Source: Campaign-finance laws are hopelessly confusing when it comes to hush...

06:04 / Campaign Finance / Ethics / vblog
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