“Helping Themselves: 2012 Candidates Have Spent Over $130 Million Funding Their Own Campaigns”
Open Secrets reports.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
“New Report Details Latest Numbers on Outside Spending, Secret Money and Super PAC Fundraising for 2012 Elections”
U.S. PIRG press release.: : The Top 5 ‘dark money’ spenders on presidential election ads have reported less than 1% of their spending to the FEC, which is all that is required by the agency’s insufficient standards, according to… Continue reading
“Pa. Voter ID Opponents Expect ‘Slam Dunk Victory’ In State Trial”
TPM reports.
“Closing arguments in voter ID case conclude”
The latest from Pa.
“Secretary of State wants to purge voter rolls of non-citizens”
Radio Iowa reports.
Judge Expects To Issue Decision on Pa. Voter ID Challenge “Before Mid-August”
So reports CBS.
“Why attacking super PACs won’t work “
The Fix reports. Nick Confessore: “Disagree w/@TheFix here. 40% can define super PAC as groups that can take unlimited $? That’s pretty good!”
“Dark Money Groups Gone Wild”
Andy Kroll on why its “open season” for secret outside groups.
“Campaign Finance in the Hybrid Realm of Recall Elections”
Beth Garrett has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Minnesota Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In the ever-evolving jurisprudence of campaign finance, one principle has endured: the rules governing candidate elections are analyzed differently from the rules governing ballot… Continue reading
“FEC should encourage small donations by text message”
WaPo oped.
“Further Review for Secret Donations”
NYT editorial.
“Kansas county works to make sure everyone may vote; County will produce its own voter ID cards for eligible resident”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
I’m not so sure that variations by county in the availability of voter id are a good (or constitutional) idea.
“2012 Election Will Be Costliest Yet, With Outside Spending a Wild Card”
Center for Responsive Politics: “The 2012 presidential and congressional elections will be the most expensive on record, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics estimates — though not by much. The Center predicts, based on data from 18 months of… Continue reading
Buddy Roemer Wants Gary Johnson in the Presidential Debates
See here. I cannot imagine the circumstances in which the Romney campaign would agree to that.