Just when you think things can’t get much worse … we now find out that the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the agency tasked with ensuring that election laws are properly enforced in order to guarantee a fair and honest {cough, cough} election, is not able to do its job. Blogging friend Brendan has written a rather chilling post on a topic we should all be aware of. Yet another strike against our democratic processes. Thank you, Brendan, for this enlightening post, for I was unaware of this, as I’m sure some others were!
I am not one for hyperbole, but the 2020 Presidential election is extremely important. In addition to many local- and state-level races, the election will determine who will control Congress for the next two years, and who will occupy the White House for the next four years.
Heading into such consequential elections, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) would be a helpful tool in making sure that candidates for the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, Presidency, and Vice Presidency were not running afoul of federal campaign finance law.[1]
There’s one problem though—the FEC is not in a position to enforce federal campaign finance law heading into this. Why? Because the FEC needs at least four commissioners (out of six that could be in place) in order to enforce federal campaign finance law, and right now, the FEC is at…three commissioners. It was an issue noted the previous…
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Fight the good fight. Be true patriots and save the USA from another four years of the Unholy Church of Trump
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Givin’ it my all, for the stakes are high. If we don’t succeed … if we don’t succeed ….
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Then there will be four years of civil strife.
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Worse … much worse.
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history Jill, history….
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This has been a problem for a while.
The implication is that we, the voters, must take responsibility for ensuring the integrity of the election.
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Absolutely!
We feel your pain…
UK 14,000,000+ did vote for this government; 16,000,000+ did not and yet Johnson’s crew got the largest majority of seats for many a decade.
Don’t let The Unholy Church of Trump steal another one from you.
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Neil-You are correct about that. It has been an issue for some time.
This I think is also part of a larger issue of how mechanisms designed to protect our election integrity have been compromised in recent years. From Citizens United to this current situation to the fact that the current nominee for an FEC seat I believe wants even weaker campaign finance oversight, there are a lot of warning signs pointing towards weaker oversight with our elections. That concerns me.
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So true. But now, more than ever, I think we need the FEC to be fully functional and on top of the game. Instead, they are getting paid to … what? … twiddle their thumbs?
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