Yesterday, the FEC posted a 46 page PDF file to its website asking for comments on the FEC.gov website. We've taken the entire PDF and put it up online for easy perusal. You can email the comments in to improvefecinternet@fec.gov, or send them in to the FEC via mail. But to make it really easy, we're launching our FEC Brainstorm today to solicit comments to submit to the FEC. We'll take the best comments that are submitted and include them in our testimony, with attribution of course.
Continue readingDisclosure Calvinball?
Apparently, PACs and the FEC are playing a serious game of Calvinball over disclosure rules. Bill Allison at Real Time... View Article
Continue readingSenate Obstinacy on Electronic Filing
David Waldman (aka Kagro X) posted a very good piece on Congress Matters regarding congressional transparency and the bureaucratic arguments... View Article
Continue readingFEC Backs Electronic Filing
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently released their 2009 legislative priorities and right at the top of their list is... View Article
Continue readingRedesigning the Government: FEC
We got a lot of great comments and discussions happening from our redesign of USA.gov, so we thought we’d continue the series and call it “Redesigning the Government.” At Sunlight, we deal a lot with FEC information, both internally and through one of our grantees, OpenSecrets.org so we thought we’d take a look at prototyping some ways that the FEC could better disclose campaign finance information through the Web.
Continue readingHow the FEC Can Do It Better
Last month, the Federal Election Commission invited the public to participate in a January 14th hearing on how the agency... View Article
Continue readingFEC Thwarts Transparency
Yesterday, the Federal Election Commission unanimously approved new disclosure rules regarding bundling, the practice of collecting campaign contributions from friends,... View Article
Continue readingEthics & Transparency Reform Discussions
Conservative bloggers Soren Dayton and Mark Tapscott have been discussing possible ethics and transparency reforms that minority Republicans could push... View Article
Continue readingFEC Data Guy and Senate Electronic Filing
ComputerWorld interviewed James Allen, the IT manager at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), a month ago and reposted it yesterday.... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Massage Chairs and Sled Dogs
Lawyers allege that Sen. Ted Stevens received additional gifts outside of the over $250,000 in labor and renovations to his... View Article
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