Elections and Campaign Finance Laws

Federal ? Commission

Elections

An Independent ? In charge of administering all laws dealing with federal elections

Agency

Under-Funded and ?

Under-staffed

Require timely ? About the source of the money

Disclosures

Place limits on campaign ? And ?

Contributions and expenditures

Provide Public ? For several parts of the ? Election process

Funding, presidential

Government will match up to ?

250,000

This type of money is given directly to a candidate for the purpose of use in an election

Hard money

Hard money fec regulated or not

Fec Regulated

this type of money is given to state and local party organizations for voting related activities

Soft money

Soft money regulated or not

Not

Individuals are limited to this amount of money per election

2,800

Interest groups/Pac’s are limited to this much money per election

5,000

Political ?

Parties

Government ?

Subsidies

This is a committee that raises and spends money to elect or defeat candidates restricted in how much can be used to support specific candidates

Political Action Committee

This type of pac may raise and spend unlimited sums of money for advertisements to support or oppose political candidates

Super PAC

Super PAC’s May not ? Money directly to candidates

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