Roll Call reports today that tomorrow there will be three open seats on the FEC (McGahn, Walther, and Weintraub), which Senator Obama can fill. I believe we need a fundamental rethinking of the FEC’s structure and purpose, especially given the proliferation of 3-3 ties on party lines that I’ve been chronicling for the last few months. (There was another 3-3 split recently announced, involving a 501(c) organization).
I know that the Obama transition team had Mark Alexander (and perhaps Spencer Overton) looking into the question of the FEC’s future. It will be interesting to see what happens.