Roll Call offers this breaking news report. Two snippets: Again, the vast majority of those donations came from a handful of extremely wealthy individuals. Newsweb Corp. President Fred Eychaner contributed $500,000; New York City philanthropists Lewis Cullman ($450,000) and… Continue reading

The Los Angeles Times offers this report, with the following subhead: “Orange County, which had glitches with electronic balloting in March, wants to keep the system. Many such counties will soon be told whether they can.”

The Los Angeles Times offers this report.

Don’t look at this if you are easily offended.

The Boston Globe offers this report, with the following subhead: “Mechanical ballots set for one last pull.” Thanks to Andrew Pratt for the pointer.

USA Today offers this report. The report is in line with this post from yesterday.

The Seattle Times offers this report on large contributors to Democratic-leaning 527s.

The Washington Post offers this report.

See this A.P. report.

Cox News Service offers this report. Thanks to Craig Holman for the pointer.

The Los Angeles Times offers this news update, with the following subhead: “Several commissioners appear willing to postpone action on so-called 527s groups, including MoveOn.org.”

Following up on this post from yesterday on Dan Ortiz’s comments submitted to the FEC, Dan replies here (on the election law listserv). Dan’s post is very helpful in clarifying where we agree and disagree. I think Dan has made… Continue reading

You can access the statement here. It is also available on the FEC website, but that is loading very slowly (no doubt, given everyone reading the 200,000 comments there). If I can find links to opening statement of other… Continue reading

As the FEC undertakes its very important rulemaking on 527s, let’s not forget the specific issue that is at stake: a proposed draft rule on when 527s (and perhaps other non-profits) are to be treated as “political committees” under the… Continue reading