Open data is about more than releasing data for outside use. For Tempe, it’s about creating a data-driven culture by changing the ways that we think about and use data inside of government.Source: Open data by default: Challenging but worth it...
Gov. Jerry Brown’s committee for the tax measure Proposition 30 in 2012 has agreed to pay $1,500 in fines to the state’s campaign watchdog committee for not properly reporting all contributions.Source: Gov. Brown's ballot measure committee agrees to pay $1,500 fine for campaign finance violations...
On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed that at its May 11 conference, it had refused to hear all four election law cases that were before it.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear All Four Election Law Cases that had Been on Conference Last Week...
On May 5, the plaintiff in Koller v Brown, n.d., 5:16cv-7069, filed this 29-page brief in their lawsuit to overturn the California law that tells presidential electors they must vote for the presidential candidate who carried their state.Source: California Democratic “Disobedient” Elector Files Brief...
Not every group that spends money on campaigns or candidate-related speech is a political committee. If that were so, only politicians, parties, and PACs would have a voice in election campaigns.Source: Putting “Dark Money” In Context: Total Campaign Spending by Political Committees and Nonprofits per Election Cycle...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – An eclectic group of plaintiffs of all political stripes want to renovate California’s political system, which they say is burdened by an “oligarchic” state government shaped by exponential population growth and an influx of corporate money in local elections.Source: Feeling Underrepresented, California Groups Demand 1,200 More Lawmakers...
Is it 2018 already? Hard to believe it’s only been six months since the last election judging by the number of super PACs that have cropped up so far. Through May 10, more than 140 groups that can spend unlimited amounts of money in elections independently from candidates have appeared since Jan.Source: Super PACs gearing up for 2018...
President Trump has just issued the executive order announcing the creation of his “voting fraud” commission to be chaired by Vice President Pence. Here are my own initial thoughts. 1. Title. This will be the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.Source: Initial thoughts on the “Pence Commission”...
A graying man — once the baby-faced press wrangler for Sen. Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign — nursed an absinthe cocktail as he mingled near a former spokesman for President George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection bid. Nearby, one of Sen.Source: Silicon Valley is 'officially a retirement community for D.C. political vets' starting fresh outside the nation's capital...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sets up a commission to review his controversial allegations of widespread voter fraud, along with reports of voter suppression.Source: White House launches a commission to study voter fraud and suppression...
