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Campaigns and Elections

By Skybert
  • Federal Election Campaign Act

    More disclosure requirements for federal candidates.
  • Media Restrictions

    Limits the amount of money that could be spent on media for advertising purposes.
  • Group Limitation

    Limit how much an individual or group could contribute to a candidate.
  • Family Limits

    Limits the amount that the family or other relation could spend on a candidate.
  • Corporation/Labor Union Participation Limitation

    Prevents coporation and labor unions from participating directly in political campaigns, but allows them to set up political action committees.
  • Disclosure Limitation

    Requires disclosure of all contributions and expenditures of more than $100.
  • FEC

    Federal Election Commission to administer and enforce the act's provisions.
  • Self Spending

    Spend as much as you want on yourself/campaign
  • Soft Money

    Money can come from corporations through political parties to support candidates. This is called "soft money".
  • McCain-Feingold

    Regulates ads, and limits on ad spending too.
  • Pac funding 36% house

    36% of the House of Rep's spending ultimately comes from PAC
  • Citizens United Decision

    Citizens United v FEC and Speechnow v FEC Supreme Court decisions remove any limits of spending as long as they do not contribute directly to a candidate's campaign
  • PAC

    Replace 527 advocate position. Independent from campaign.
  • 501c4

    Basically a loophole through the system that allows a group to raise money for candidates without limits. Which is bs.