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The State Board of Elections administers the election laws of the State of Illinois. In this capacity, it oversees the local election commissions, accepts nominating petitions and certificates of nomination, certifies the names of valid candidates for election, accepts and cross-checks the vote totals reported after Election Day, and accepts financial disclosures from the candidates' campaign ...
The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( FECA, Pub. L. 92–225, 86 Stat. 3, enacted February 7, 1972, 52 U.S.C. § 30101 et seq.) is the primary United States federal law regulating political campaign fundraising and spending. The law originally focused on creating limits for campaign spending on communication media, adding additional ...
The Illinois State Board of Elections ruled on Tuesday to keep the Democratic and Republican presidential frontrunners on the primary ballot. In a joint meeting held in Chicago and Springfield ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on April 19, 2023. [9] An environmental lawyer, [10] writer, and member of the Kennedy family, he is known for advocating anti-vaccine misinformation [11] [12] [13] and public health conspiracy theories. [14]
Campaign finance laws in the United States have been a contentious political issue since the early days of the union. The most recent major federal law affecting campaign finance was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also known as " McCain - Feingold ". Key provisions of the law prohibited unregulated contributions (commonly ...
Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in ...
Elections in Illinois are directly administered by 109 election authorities. Seven municipalities each have an election commission as the local election authority only within that municipality. Outside of those, the county clerk is the local election authority in 100 counties, and 2 counties have a separate election commission. [3]
JOHN O'CONNOR. April 26, 2024 at 6:21 PM. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of a former Illinois congressman $43,475 for failing to refund ...