'Law and order' Lindsey Graham flagged for possible campaign finance violations

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The American Independent
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Erin Chlopak, director of campaign finance strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, said in an email that letters like this are "generated pretty routinely and often flag common mistakes that can be fairly easily and quickly corrected." But, she wrote, it "highlights an important issue affecting our political process right now: the agency whose sole responsibility to investigate and enforce violations of our nation's campaign finance laws cannot do its job. The FEC's lack of quorum for much of the 2020 election cycle and especially in the months and now weeks leading up to a presidential election means that more serious violations of law will go uninvestigated and unenforced."

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