WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Campaign Finance Institute issued a report that found “soft money political spending by 501(c) nonprofits tripled in the 2008 election.” CFI’s findings also included: 527 political group spending declined,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU asked “Will courts allow more transparency?” in a story about legal threats to transparency and disclosure laws that appeared in Politico.
ST.PAUL, Minnesota—Meanwhile, Common Cause Minnesota issued the Minnesota Election Report, which recommends that Minnesota election law be changed to simplify the voting registration process, to improve training of election judges and…
Minnesota—Last week, Heartland Democracy kicked off its public launch with a report calling for universal voter registration (UVR): “Already in use in other mature democracies, but nowhere in the…
NEW YORK -- Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Today in the United States, over five million otherwise eligible citizens cannot vote because of a felony conviction. Four million of these people are not in prison -…
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Stateline.org has released their 2012 State of the States report. The report touches on the issues and stories that will take center stage around the country in state governments this year. Included here are…
Minnesota, Illinois and Ohio are among seven states leading the country in online access to government spending data.A new U.S. PRIG report, “
CHICAGO – In the month leading up to the recent 2006 mid-term elections, local television news viewers got considerably more information about campaigns from paid political advertisements than from actual news coverage, a new study shows. Local newscasts…
MADISON, Wisconsin -- In the month following the traditional Labor Day kickoff of the 2006 election campaign season, television stations in nine Midwest markets devoted an average of 36 seconds to election coverage during the typical 30-minute local news broadcast,…
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