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Sad Note from Michael Malbin

I share Professor Malbin’s sadness in learning from his email to the election law listserv that Herbert E. Alexander, the dean of campaign finance scholarship in the United States, died of cancer on Thursday April 3.  He was 80 years old. Alexander was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Southern California and […]

Minding Committee Finances

In 2007, the FEC released a Statement of Policy establishing a safe harbor for misreporting due to embezzlement of committee funds.  This hugely helpful policy, and its thankfully brief presentation in the Federal Register, is must-reading (or re-reading, I suspect) in today’s times.