Bauer: Public Citizen has concluded that the Federal Election Commission is failing.  Its shortcomings are “dramatic and uncharacteristic”, because they range across the entire field of their responsibilities in conducting audits; enforcing the law through investigations, settlements and lawsuits;… Continue reading

Press release: The nation’s elections agency remains incapacitated by the ideological divide between its Democratic and Republican commissioners, according to a study (PDF) Public Citizen released today. In “Roiled in Partisan Gridlock, Federal Election Commission is Failing,”… Continue reading

Bauer blogs.

Ellen Weintraub on Up with Steve.

FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman has written this oped for Politico.

Politico on FEC Chair Ravel. It is amazing how much attention the FEC has gotten this week since the publication of Eric Licthbalu’s NYT story on dysfunction at the FEC. But as readers of this blog know, the story is… Continue reading

Watch FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub on Maddow.

Another reader writes: Your correspondent put a strange slant on your old Slate article about Hans Von Spakovsky & the FEC. Nowhere in your article did you suggest that Hans would have acted/voted any differently than Don McGahn. You simply… Continue reading

In response to my earlier post, a reader offers a different and very interesting perspective: You say on your blog that the “origins” of the current “dysfunction” trace to Don McGahn.  “Don McGahn” may serve as a convenient origin… Continue reading

Here at ACS.

NYT reports on record low fines at the FEC. For those who responded to Eric Lichtblau’s earlier report by saying that the FEC was always gridlocked and dysfunctional, it’s just not true.  It never had great enforcement powers, but there… Continue reading

Diane Rehm show.

Here.