With the latest resignation, the Federal Election Commission, an independent federal agency charged with overseeing U.S. elections, has been left toothless ahead of 2020 elections.
As the pivotal 2020 election rapidly approaches, the Federal Election Commission, an independent federal agency charged with overseeing U.S. elections, is left with no enforcement power of any substantive matters with the resignation of Vice Chairman Matthew Petersen.
"Vice Chairman Petersen's resignation makes it imperative that the President speedily nominate new commissioners and that the Senate move expeditiously to confirm them," Weintraub wrote. The FEC has since been described as dysfunctional by critics, unable to make ruling on significant cases brought before it. In one of the most recent cases, because the agency was equally divided on the matter, the FEC was forced to drop a complaint from the campaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center accusing Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign of illegally coordinating with a pro-Clinton super PAC Correct the Record during the 2016 election.
But former Democratic commissioner Ravel, who has been a vocal critic of gridlocks within the FEC, said that with the watchdog agency without the ability to actually enforce matters, campaigns and outside groups will be emboldened to even further stretch campaign finance laws.
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