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Category: Money in Politics

Proposed Rule Change Could Make the Feckless Federal Election Commission Even Less Effective

September 17, 2023December 29, 2023
The feckless Federal Elections Commission may become even less effective. A proposed rules change would task the usually deadlocked FEC commissioners with authorizing all campaign finance investigations, likely bringing meaningful accountability to a standstill.
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This 82-Year-Old Could Be Enjoying Retirement.  Instead, He’s Walking Across the Country to Fix Democracy

August 30, 2023December 30, 2023
Thursday, August 31st, Vermonter Rick Hubbard will walk the remaining 6 miles to the Round House, New Mexico’s capital building in Santa Fe. At 82 years old, he could be enjoying retirement, but instead, he’s walking across the United States to fix Democracy.
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Should Commodities Traders Be Able to Gamble on Who Wins Control of Congress?

August 10, 2023December 30, 2023
Should investors be able to bet on who wins the control of Congress?  A commodities trading company wants to sell “futures” contracts based on the outcome of elections.
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U.S. House & Senate Democrats Reintroduce the Freedom to Vote Act, But It Faces More Hurdles This Session

July 19, 2023December 30, 2023
Tuesday, Democratic leaders of the U.S. House and Senate re-introduced the Freedom to Vote Act, the sweeping democracy reform bill narrowly defeated in the U.S. Senate in 2022.
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“American Confidence in Elections Act” Introduced in U.S. House Nationalizes Restrictions on Mail-In Voting & Doubles Down on Election Disinformation

July 12, 2023July 13, 2023
The American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act sounds harmless enough. But cloaked in the bill introduced Monday in the U.S. House is an effort to nationalize mail-in voting restrictions modeled by Florida, Georgia, Texas and other voter suppression states.
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