Unlimited Individual Recount Donations OK
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Presidential and congressional candidates can raise unlimited donations to finance recounts as President Bush and Al Gore did for their high-stakes Florida dispute in 2000.
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Obama seeks to distance himself from indicted donor ... Retired Gen. Schwarzkopf backs McCain for president ... Former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee created fund for portrait, special events
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Federal Election Commission may appeal ruling that campaign finance and spending limits must apply online.
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HereÃ¢ÂÂs how fast the money chase has accelerated in the still-early contest for the 2008 presidential nominations: The amounts raised individually between April and June by each of the two leading aspirants for the Democratic nomination appear likely to match or exceed the totals raised in the parallel period by the top five contenders for the partyÃ¢ÂÂs 2004 nod Ã¢ÂÂ combined.
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Tycho: It's "limited," but not that limited. There's fifteen hundred of them total, if you are interested. (CW)TB
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Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: &#36;100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff&#039;s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist&#039;s tax-exempt group.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Election officials plan to decide before Nov. 2 whether congressional and presidential candidates can raise unlimited donations to fund recounts as President Bush and Al Gore could for the multimillion-dollar Florida ballot dispute in 2000.
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Give your donors what they need while following your own rules.
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Washington Democrats will pay for a second recount in the state&#39;s unsettled governor&#39;s race, hoping it will erase the 42-vote margin held by Republican Dino Rossi.
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Wealthy members of Congress can give unlimited amounts of their own money to groups for get-out-the-vote drives even though they are barred from raising big checks for their campaigns or others, election officials said Thursday.
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The capacity of people to give never ceases to amaze me. In Washington, Donnie Simpson, a local radio personality, recently helped raise funds for the American Red Cross's tsunami relief efforts. Listeners were encouraged to donate a minimum of $100 for a song request or shout-out.
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You can donate without giving dollars and cents.
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WASHINGTON, May 25  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A bill that would save the Internet radio industry from a dramatic increase of fees webcasters pay to play music gained the support of its 100th member of the House of Representatives today.
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Federal regulators recommended Tuesday that a newly formed political group cannot accept unlimited contributions from donors if it wants to advocate for or against candidates for federal office.
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The House has scheduled votes this week on open-government bills. They would:  - Require organizations established for the purpose of raising funds for presidential libraries to disclose the sources of contributions of $200 or more.
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As the primary season continues, observers of the electronic-voting scene ask whether it's possible to tally the ballots efficiently while restoring Americans' faith in the process. Random, mandatory audits of cast ballots show promise, but even after demonstrated successes, not everyone's on board.