CQ Politics reports on these long anticipated proposed rules on coordinated communications and federal election activity. CQ reports a 4-2 vote, but I am awaiting additional details, and expect to see some analysis of these coordination rules in coming days from the usual suspects.
UPDATE (8/27): CQ’s report of a 4-2 vote apparently was not quite right. Here’s how BNA explains what happened on the coordination rules: “The Federal Election Commission voted Aug. 26 to approve a long-awaited rule on ‘coordinated communications’ that borrows heavily from recent Supreme Court decisions and regulates funding of messages that contain the “functional equivalent of express advocacy” for or against candidates. The compromise rule was adopted on a 5-1 vote following rejection of a stricter provision, which would have covered all messages that ‘promote, support, attack or oppose’ candidates. That proposal–known in FEC shorthand as the PASO standard–was rejected on a party-line vote, with the three Democratic FEC commissioners supporting it and the three FEC Republicans opposed.”