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Microsoft may offer a package of enhanced online account security features to federal candidates and party committees on a nonpartisan basis at no additional charge.

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Microsoft provides a range ...

Congress has passed and sent to the President the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, which includes a provision that makes the ...

The Commission will offer reporting and FECFile webinars to help filers prepare for the busy pre-election filing period. The webinars for candidate committees will be held on Wednesday, October 3 ...

On August 8, 2018, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) and Noah Bookbinder (“plaintiffs”) filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge ...

The electioneering communications period for the general election began on Friday, September 7 and runs through November 6. Any person who makes electioneering communications that aggregate more than $10,000 ...

WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission today approved an advisory opinion and a Notification of Availability on a petition for rulemaking.

Advisory Opinion 2019-11 (Microsoft Corporation). The Commission approved an advisory ...

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

• AOR 2018-11
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Protected Voices is an FBI initiative, coordinated with DHS and ODNI, to mitigate the risk of cyber influence operations targeting U.S. elections. As part of Protected Voices, the FBI ...

Congressional candidates running in 2017 and 2018 collected $1.7 billion and disbursed $1.1 billion, political parties received $924.3 million and spent $690.9 million, and political action ...

As we enter the last months of the election cycle, many political committees and other entities will run last-minute radio and television ads to reach potential voters. Many of those ...

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission cited 13 campaign committees today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the ...

On August 15, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision to dismiss the complaint in McChesney v. FEC. Plaintiffs Bart ...

The FEC has released a new version of its free software, FECFile (v.8.3). After August 15, 2018, only filings formatted in Version 8.3 will be accepted.

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission cited a campaign committee today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the ...

WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today issued an Opinion and Judgment affirming the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska’s decision ...