Election Watchdog, Dormant for Months, Can Finally Move Into Action

“I think there’s some nod to ‘Gee, it’s not good in an election year to not have an agency that obviously can’t function legally because it doesn’t have the right number of commissioners,’” said Trevor Potter, a Republican and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who runs the Campaign Legal Center. “But it doesn’t solve the problem just to give it a quorum so they can deadlock.”

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