Ellen L. Weintraub is a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission. What sentiment unites supporters of candidates as diverse as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders? Disgust with the way we fund our elections.Source: How to fix Congress? Make representatives accountable to voters....
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...
Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel wished to step down until she met with President Barack Obama in early 2016, who persuaded her to stay on board through the November election in return for two favors, a senior federal government official has told The Daily Caller.Source: EXCLUSIVE: Senior Gov. Official Says Obama Made Quid Pro Quo Deal With FEC Commissioner...
On Tuesday, Americans will elect a president without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. The last time that happened they were deciding between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater — more than a half-century ago.Source: Without a modernized Voting Rights Act, there’s no such thing as an honest election...
This is it. The end is finally nigh…well at least (we hope) for the 2016 election cycle.Although millions of voters have already cast their ballots either through early voting, absentee voting or vote-by-mail, millions more will head to the polls on November 8 and cast their ballot for the 45th president of the United States as well as countless other...
“We have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said during a recent rally in Pennsylvania, “… Everybody knows what I’m talking about.Source: Commentary: Yes, broken voter ID laws will affect the 2016 election...
Under Pennsylvania law, poll watchers must be from the same county in which they are registered to vote. Republicans failed to change that law in the legislature, and the PA Republican party filed a federal lawsuit seeking to make the change.Source: Breaking: Federal Court Rejects PA GOP Efforts to Send Poll Watchers to Different Counties to Look for Voter Fraud...
Donald Trump holds a lead in Utah, but independent candidate Evan McMullin is catching up. | GettySource: Poll: Trump leads Clinton by 6 points in Utah as McMullin gains support...
Memos prepared by legal counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign reveal how the campaign developed workarounds so it could coordinate with a network of pro-Clinton super political action committees or Super PACs.Source: How Clinton Campaign Gamed Super PAC Regulations...
A dirty tricks campaign for the digital era popped up on Twitter this week. It involved a series of fake ads, apparently aimed at black and Latino voters, which provides a phone code for voters to “text” their votes for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.Source: Sneaky Ads on Twitter Tell Voters to Text Votes for Hillary Clinton...
