Month: November 2008

Recount Funds

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 13, 2008
Categories In FEC, Voting

Federal candidates involved in recounts have recount expenses, naturally. There’s some history worth considering when working with recount funds.

The Bundlers

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 13, 2008
Categories In FEC, LDA

More transition team news in this report. Avoiding special interests and lobbyists looks to be a constant headache for the incoming Administration. As a candidate, Sen. Obama made grand promises to clean Washington of the kind of special interest politics that he accused Republicans of engaging in. He boasted that he counted no lobbyists among […]

Minnesota Election Fraud?

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 12, 2008
Categories In Minnesota, Voting

John Lott writes about prospects for election fraud in Minnesota. When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. By Friday, it […]