Handing a victory to campaign finance reformers, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed legislation that will allow more California cities and counties to permit publicly financed election campaigns.Source: More California cities can have publicly financed election campaigns...
Gov. Jerry Brown, clearing the way for Sacramento and several other counties to hold all-mail elections in two years, signed legislation Thursday that allows for the consolidation of neighborhood polling places into new vote centers.Source: Voters in Sacramento, other counties to cast ballots in ‘centers’ instead of neighborhood in 2018...
California has led the way in a parade of democratic reforms in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that set back voting rights and clean elections. But two campaign finance reform bills have languished on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.Source: Brown should sign campaign bills, strengthen democracy...
Four years after it began requiring TV stations to upload their records of political ad sales to a central government website, the Federal Communications Commission maintains a recordkeeping system that makes finding out who an ad’s sponsor is feel like a treasure hunt.Source: Gaping holes, confusion mar FCC’s data on political ad buys...
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Last Friday, The New York Times Editorial Board published a piece lambasting the “feckless” Federal Election Commission for “fail[ing] to police this rise of ‘dark money.Source: The New York Times: Replace the FEC with A More Partisan Agency...
Will this year’s presidential election be rigged, as Donald Trump has predicted?Source: If Trump Disputes the Election, We Have No Good Way Out...
(CNN)September was not a good month for Merrick Garland. The Obama administration's efforts to reignite interest in the Supreme Court nominee fizzled.Source: How Mitch McConnell won the Supreme Court fight...
What's behind Russia's effort to influence the U.S. election The leaders of the U.S. government, including the President and his top national-security advisers, face an unprecedented dilemma. Since the spring, U.S.Source: How Russia Wants to Undermine the U.S. Election...
