Out of the many federal public servants who ran as candidates in the last federal election, only one was elected: Caroline ...

Federal activity—spending to help candidates for Congress or the presidency —must be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The Center surveyed the type of information political party ...

Federal Election Commission. That case overruled on First Amendment grounds the statutory bans on soft or “issue-ad” money spent by corporations and unions close to presidential primaries and ...

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, instead asked a DOJ official why the department wanted the information, how it ...

Anniversaries are often festive. Not today at the Federal Election Commission. As of April 30, the FEC’s current four commissioners have been on the commission for a total of 32 years longer than they ...

Election officials have also failed to remove people who have moved out of state or died. A 2012 Pew study found that 24 million voter registrations in the U.S. were inaccurate, out of date or ...

Federal Election Commission headquarters on Sept. 21, 2018 in Washington. Sarah Silbiger / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images file ...

The Federal Election Commission has lacked a quorum for most of the last year. Campaign finance advocates say its problems run deeper than that.

The Federal Election Commission has not been able to operate since July, when a Republican commissioner resigned, leaving the FEC short of the four commissioners necessary to meet and unable ...

For years, the Federal Election Commission has been barely functional. But at the end of this month—as the 2020 campaign heats up and unprecedented amounts of money flow to candidates for ...

The Federal Election Commission has flagged issues with contributions made to embattled Rep.-elect George Santos’ campaign, according to a letter addressed to the New York Republican’s ...

The Federal Election Commission, the beleaguered independent agency that is supposed to serve as the watchdog over how money is raised and spent in American elections, has long been criticized as ...