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A single contribution limit applies to the entire ranked-choice voting process in Maine’s 2024 U.S. Senate election, because the entire process, including all rounds of vote tallying, constitutes a single …

WASHINGTON – At its open meeting today, the Federal Election Commission approved two advisory opinions and a Draft Final Rule on candidate security. The Commission also approved a Notice of …

On September 9, 2024, Campaign Legal Center (plaintiff) filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiff is challenging the FEC's dismissal of an administrative …

On August 30, 2024, Rev. David Lewicki and Vladimir Shklovsky (plaintiffs) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Commission’s dismissal of their administrative …

PACs, political parties and presidential campaign committees that file monthly have a report due by Friday, September 20, covering the month of August. Quarterly filing PACs and political party …

On September 5, 2024, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed that the Federal Election Campaign Act’s (the Act) limits on coordinated party expenditures do …

The Federal Election Commission has certified payments of $298,370.51 in federal matching funds to Mike Pence and Mike Pence for President 2024 and $279,983.34 to Jill Stein and Jill Stein …

Utah Senate candidate Caroline Gleich’s campaign may pay her salary earned during the campaign in the 20-day period following termination of her candidacy. In addition, Ms. Gleich may continue to …

WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission today made public two draft documents in connection with REG 2023-02 (Artificial Intelligence in Campaign Ads):

Draft Interpretive Rule Regarding 52 U.S.C. 30124

Draft …

The Commission has decided not to initiate a rulemaking in response to Campaign Legal Center’s petition that sought to require reporting of equal-value mailing list exchanges.

The Commission noted that …

The FBI has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence to reduce the risk of cyber influence operations targeting U.S. elections. The FBI’s Protected …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an en banc Opinion and Judgment in National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. FEC, et al. …

WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission has certified to the Secretary of Treasury a payment of $279,983.34 from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to Green Party candidate Jill Stein and …

A candidate’s principal campaign committee may participate in a joint fundraiser with a Super PAC, so long as the committee and other entities affiliated with or acting on behalf …

Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.

• AOR 2024-09
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On August 29, 2024, the Commission considered an advisory opinion request from American Target Advertising and The Conservative Caucus (requestors). Requestors asked whether and how to report as independent expenditures …

The electioneering communications period for the general election begins Friday, September 6 and runs through November 5. Any person who makes electioneering communications that aggregate more than $10,000 for the …