This file contains archived live captions of the open meeting of the Federal Election Commission held on December 02, 2021. This file is not a transcript of the meeting, and it has not been reviewed for accuracy or approved by the Federal Election Commission.


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Thank you. Standby. >> Federal and 19 09.  The commission determined pursuant  to 11 C.F.R. section 2.71 the this  requires as public announcement. 
     The vice chair is so moved. Any  discussion on the motion looks all  in favor indicated by saying I. 
     Madam Secretary the motion has been  adopted as unanimous. So the first  item that we have on the agenda  2021  11 being held over.  Madam chair.  We may have a problem with the feed. It's never a dull moment here. Okay. You may continue. As I mentioned the  advisory request  2021  11 held over. The only item is the audit division  recommendation on memorandum of  the Republican party of Minnesota. We have Ms. Brenda Wheeler from the audit division to  discuss the matter. We will turn  it over to Ms. Wheeler. Good  morning madam chair and commissioners. Before we talk about the memorandum, the Republican Party of Minnesota  federal. Which was rescinded to  the commission for consideration on November 12th 2021.  The ADR provides the audit  staff recommendation for six findings outlined in the final audit report. The  six findings presented are recordkeeping for employees,  recordkeeping for communications,  reporting of independent expenditures, 
     disclosure of transfers and allocation  ratios, excessive coordinated party expenditures, and  disclosure of loans  and loan repayments.  We are available to answer any questions  you may have. Any questions  for the audit division? 
     If  there are no questions, are there  any motion? I  would move the approval for on the Republican party of findings three and five in direct audit to make any necessary conforming  edits. Thank you , Commissioner. I am  trying to --  the normal order  for these things would be to move  approval of the entire audit report or recommendations first. 
     Which I was going to do but nobody  raised any objections. I did not  think they were going to be any. So I did not know that I had to  jump in. Madam chair, I am happy  to withdraw my motion. And  that you go first. Thank you. I  appreciate it.  With that madam chair, I move approval of  the audit division recommendations as set forth in the memorandum  on the Republican Party of Minnesota  federal.  Thank you.  Any discussion on this motion? All those in favor please say I.  I. Opposed, please say no. Motion fails with  three in favor. Three voting against a motion. Additional motion? Madam chair.  I would renew my motion to adopt the  recommendations with the  exceptions of finding three and  five. And with the  direction the audit making his conforming  changes. Thank you Commissioner  trainer. Any discussion on this  motion? Hearing none. All in favor please say I. I. 
     Closed. -- Opposed . Let me know call that too  soon. Any further I? Opposed, please say no. No. 
     I am sorry, that was a no.  The motion fails  with three voting in favor. The  vice chair, Commissioner training, 
     and three voting against the motion,  Walter, and myself.  Any further motions? 
     Anything further with this matter? No. Let me time -- let me turn to  the audit division. Any questions  for the audit division? Thank you. We will move on to this  matter. As I mentioned that was  the only item that we had on this  meeting. I think we be our record, this  might've been a five minute meeting.  Let me turn to the staff director. Mr. staff director, any management  or administrative matters that the  mission needs to discuss today?  There are no such matters. This meeting is adjourned. >>  [ Event concluded  ]