Chaos of Election 2012 Shows That We Need a REAL Voting Rights Act of Substance
This isn’t a developing country. Voter impersonation fraud is nearly nonexistent. Election fraud, on the other hand, is rampant. Florida in 2000 , Ohio in 2004 , scattered incidents nationwide today (see, e.g., this example this morning in Pennsylvania ); election fraud is becoming endemic — which is not acceptable in [...]
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Election Suppression Day
It has been a long time coming, but Americans across the country head to the polls today to cast their ballots. As they do so, voting rights advocates will be watching closely to monitor confusion over whether they are required to show a photo identification and fulfill other requirements that [...]
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RNC Shuts Out Grassroots Despite Loud Opposition
While some think that the rules adoptions at the Republican National Convention was all about Ron Paul, they are mistaken. by Tim Brown While some think that the rules adoptions today was all about Ron Paul, they are mistaken. Cynthia Kennedy reported in two stories that the RNC were setting up last minute [...]
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RNC Electoral Vote Sham Steals Ron Pauls Votes and Compromises Electoral System
The Convention is where delegates are meant to cast votes for the nominee, yet the Tampa Bay Times Forum was already plastered with embedded Romney banners, and additional ‘Mitt’ signs for people to hold were also smuggled in to make it appear that many are behind him. All Ron Paul [...]
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McCotter Aids Charges With Election Fraud
FOUR McCOTTER AIDES CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD - Kathleen Gray, Joe Swickard and Jim Schaefer write on A1 of the Detroit Free Press: “In announcing election fraud charges Thursday against four members of former U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter’s congressional staff, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette blamed McCotter for running such a slipshod, leaderless [...]
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Are Votes Still For Sale?
Jack Abramoff: “During the years I was lobbying, I purveyed millions of my own and clients’ dollars to congressmen, especially at such decisive moments. I never contemplated that these payments were really just bribes, but they were. Like most dissembling Washington hacks, I viewed these payments as legitimate political contributions, [...]
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Renacci Return $100k In Campaign Donations After FBI Investigates
RENACCI RETURNS $100K IN DUBIOUS CAMPAIGN CASH – Henry Gomez reports for the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci says he has returned $100,000 in questionable campaign cash, reversing plans to keep the money pending the outcome of a federal probe. Renacci, a Republican from Wadsworth, disclosed his decision [...]
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FEC Hides Records of Super Wealthy Donors – AlertNet Discovers
If ever there was cause for an investigation, this is it. Even for a hack group like the FEC, this goes beyond the pale. Alternet reports: We have discovered that sometime after January of this year, the FEC deleted a whole set of contributions totaling millions of dollars made during [...]
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Was Dark Money Funds From Wealthy Donors Deleted From FEC Donor Registries?
A political revelation, while not as momentous as the Libor scandal, does not reflect well on the Federal Election Commission, a post Watergate creation meant to provide transparency in political donations, or to put it more pointedly, to see who is trying to buy influence where. The short story is [...]
GOP Kills Disclosure Reform Bill
DISCLOSE ACT FAILS – POLITICO’s Tarini Parti: “Senate Democrats on Monday lost another attempt to pass legislation forcing donors of groups that bankroll most election ads to be revealed. … The DISCLOSE Act, which was dealt the same fate in the Senate in 2010, failed to overcome a key procedural [...]
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Top Donor Sheldon Adelson Under Scrutiny For Bribery and Mob Ties and Commentary On Blocked Disclose Act
As Senate Republicans block the DISCLOSE Act, legislation that would unmask anonymous campaign donors, we look at Sheldon Adelson, a major donor behind Republican campaigns. Adelson has pledged to donate $100 million to defeat President Obama but is now coming under new scrutiny for possible violations of federal [...]
Big Donations in 2007 and 2008 Were Scrubbed from the Federal Elections Commission Database?
We’re millions of dollars of donations purged from election donor database in 2007 / 2008? Yep. Question is: Why? nakedcapitalist has a report – A political revelation, while not as momentous as the Libor scandal, does not reflect well on the Federal Election Commission, a post Watergate creation meant to [...]
Disclosure Act Killed Again By Republicans
GOP KILLS DISCLOSE ACT AGAIN, DEMS HOLD ‘MIDNIGHT VIGIL’ - The Washington Post’s Rosalind Helderman reports: “The Senate has failed to advance legislation that would require independent groups to disclose the names of contributors who give more than $10,000 for use in political campaigns. The measure, known as the DISCLOSE Act, [...]
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Democrats Push Once Again for Disclosure Act
DEMS RENEW PUSH FOR DISCLOSE ACT – Tomer Ovadia, one of our summer interns who wraps up his time on the Hill today, writes: “Democrats launched another push for campaign finance transparency on Thursday, aiming to combat the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling as Republicans outraise them on the campaign [...]
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ALEC Facing New Challenge To Tax Exempt Status
ALEC faces new challenge to tax-exempt status A prominent tax attorney has accused the American Legislative Exchange Council with improperly claiming nonprofit status, alleging the group’s role is to benefit businesses, the Republican party, legislators — and not the public. The group has attracted attention recently for its model “stand [...]
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More On Election Disclosure: Van Hollen and McConnell
VAN HOLLEN BLASTS MCCONNELL ON DISCLOSURE: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), sponsor of the DISCLOSE ACT, today blasted the remarks of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week that suggested the bill was a tool for liberals to silence their critics. “That is a bunch of nonsense,” Van Hollen [...]
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GOP Blocks Election Transparency Bill
U.S. Chamber, GOP block election transparency bill In 2010, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., introduced legislation that included a provision to require nonprofits that buy political ads to disclose their donors. The bill — fought tooth and nail by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — failed. A stripped-down version introduced [...]
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Dead Dog In VA Sent A Voter Registration Form
At Politico.com, Report: Dead dog gets Va. voter form – A dog named Mozart was sent a Virginia voter registration form last week, according to a report. And like his famous namesake, the dog is dead. Tim Morris came home to find a voter registration form in the mail addressed [...]
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White House FEC Petition Response Under Fire
GOVERNMENT REFORM GROUPS BLAST WHITE HOUSE’S FEC PETITION RESPONSE: A coalition of government reform and watchdog groups “read with great disappointment” the White House’s “lackluster … uninspiring and uninformative” response Friday (http://politi.co/NGqCTb) to a petition they submitted demanding reform of the Federal Election Commission, which they’ve panned as “dysfunctional.” In [...]
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John McCain Speaks On Elections, Big Money and Citizens United
Here is an nice refresh on Citizens United. Looks like McCain has a lot of wise input here. Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain says he’s “worried” that billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who reportedly may contribute up to $100 million in support of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney, and others could have [...]
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McConnell Pushes On Campaign Fiance Issues
McCONNELL PUSHES BACK ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE – In a POLITICO op-ed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a vociferous opponent of campaign finance regulations, argues the First Amendment is “under serious threat” by the Obama administration – a message he will deliver later today at the American Enterprise Institute. From the op-ed: “The Obama [...]
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Obama Thuggish Over Citizens United
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday accused President Barack Obama’s administration of using “thuggish” tactics to promote campaign finance reform. During a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, McConnell said that liberals were using “bullying” and “intimidation” to thwart the free speech rights of conservatives. “The administration’s most [...]
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Gingrich Admits What He Knew All Along
Elections are rigged for the rich, wealthy, well to do and essentially: by for and of the 1%, not “The People” (rest of us). There really isn’t too much to cover here, but an article at Politico explains what he said: Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that elections are “rigged, frankly, [...]
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IRS Is Going After Political Non-Profits and Send Signals To Other Groups
IRS Denies Tax Exempt Status To Political Non-Profit, Sends Signal to Similar Groups This purely political ad was prepared by the American Energy Alliance, which has a 501(c)4 tax exemption from the IRS. This exemption allegedly means it engages in charitable and community action and is not engaged in [...]
Transparency On Political Ads – Republican Vote To Block Legislation
Republicans Vote to Block Transparency on Political Ads The Republican opponents “of a new rule to post political ad information online have opened up another front in a long-running fight, inserting language into an appropriations bill that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from implementing the transparency measure,” ProPublica reports.
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Courts Under Scrutiny After FEC Deadlock on Disclosure
CONSERVATIVE GROUP EYES COURTS AFTER FEC DEADLOCKS ON DISCLOSURE VOTE: The conservative nonprofit group American Future Fund is considering seeking federal court action to avoid disclosing financial information about a series of politically charged television ads it wants to air. Such calculus comes after the FEC today mostly deadlocked 3-3 on a series of [...]
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More On Kirk’s FEC and Girlfriend Scandal
Chicago Tribune 1-col. lead, “Kirk’s ex-wife questions campaign payments: FEC complaint involves girlfriend; senator’s office decries claim,” by Katherine Skiba and Todd Lighty: “Soon after Mark Kirk’s ex-wife announced she would no longer support his 2010 run for the U.S. Senate, he brought her onto his campaign team, then quietly [...]
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Illinois Sentor Mark Kirk Hit With $143,000 FEC Compaint
The former wife of Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Kirk’s campaign hid tens of thousands of dollars in payments to his ex-girlfriend. Kimberly Vertolli, who was married to Kirk for eight years before they divorced in 2009, claims that [...]
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Overturn Citizens United, The Truth Is The Truth Regardless of The Pundit or Commentary
With commentaries like the following: Don’t Blame Citizens United Matt Bai: “The reason for this exponential leap in political spending, if you talk to most Democrats or read most news reports, comes down to two words: Citizens United. The term is shorthand for a Supreme Court decision that gave corporations [...]
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