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Latest Articles:AO 2012-32 Committee and Candidates Must Wait for Multicandidate Status A committee may not make contributions to candidates in excess of $2,500 per election until it has qualified as a multicandidate committee, nor may candidates accept such contributions. Read more... Hassan v. FEC On September 28, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit brought against the Commission by Abdul Karim Hassan. The plaintiff had sought a judgment that the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act is unconstitutional and invalid, and that the requirement in Article II of the U.S. Constitution that the President be a natural born citizen has been effectively repealed or otherwise undermined by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Read more... Winding Down the Campaign Reporting Roundtable On November 14, 2012, the Commission will hold a roundtable workshop to help candidate committees prepare to file their 30-Day Post-General (30G) Report and wind down their campaigns. The workshop will include information on raising funds to retire campaign debt, settling debts for less than the full amount owed, filing the Post-Election Detailed Summary Page and terminating a committee. Read more... McCutcheon et al. v. FEC On September 28, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee (RNC) challenging the Federal Election Campaign Act’s (the Act’s) biennial limit on individual contributions. The plaintiffs had contended the limit was unconstitutionally low and not supported by a sufficient governmental interest. Read more... Commission Certifies Federal Matching Funds for Jill Stein The Commission has certified Jill Stein’s presidential campaign eligible for $160,389.13 in federal matching funds for the 2012 primary election. The certification is based on the agency’s review of the campaign’s recent matching fund submission, and allows the U.S. Treasury Department to transfer federal funds to Jill Stein for President. Read more... Voter Registration Activity and GOTV Now that the general election Federal Election Activity (FEA) time periods have begun, party committees may want to review the definitions of “voter registration activity” and “get-out-the-vote-activity” (GOTV), which were revised in 2010. This article answers common questions about those revised regulations. Read more... October Reporting Reminder The following reports are due in October: All principal campaign committees of House and Senate candidates must file a quarterly report by October 15, 2012. The report covers financial activity from July 1 (or the day after the closing date of the last report) through September 30. Read more... Van Hollen v. FEC On September 18, 2012, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the judgment of the District Court in Van Hollen v. FEC. The Court of Appeals found that the lower court erred in holding that Congress “spoke plainly” when it enacted 2 U.S.C. §434(f) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, thus foreclosing any regulatory construction of the statute by the FEC. Read more...
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