Talk:Federal Election Commission

2008 Presidential template?
Does anyone have any idea why the template is tacked on here? It seems not directly related.

--Electiontechnology (talk) 19:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Apparently this template has been removed from the article.--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:34, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Changes
The FEC is going through massive changes. here's a link. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102299.html please add this info into the article. 70.247.72.47 (talk) 00:02, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Chair and Vice Chair for 2009
The positions of Chair and Vice Chair for 2009 have not been updated to reflect the information on the FEC official website. President Obama has nominated a replacement for one of the Democrats, and he can be expected to nominate replacements for other Commissioners whose terms are now expired. Of course, any nominees must be confirmed by the Senate. This article needs updating, but perhaps it is best done after the nominees are known. --DThomsen8 (talk) 10:56, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Chair and Vice Chair for 2012
All of the Commissioners listed are current members, but the reappointments and expirations of their new terms are not. I would hope that someone would bring this page up to date. Activist (talk) 19:25, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Partisan?
"Defenders of the agency point out, however, that the Commissioners rarely divide evenly along partisan lines," -Reference needed:  An editorial in the NYT of March 11, 2011 says just the opposite is happening now (He refers to cases where the Republicans regularly refuse to votte against violators). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.225.34.170 (talk) 10:11, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * After the song "Feeling nothing more than feeling", the contents of speech should include resolving the disaster of people and thanks giving from God, we have the land to live....................Hsiao Hsian Li ,April 29,2015 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.252.84.172 (talk) 11:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Plagiarism, but I don't know how to flag it
I noticed that the "Official Duties" section is almost perfectly copied from the similar section in a Dummies Guide to... about the FEC. Here's the page with the original source: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/what-is-the-federal-election-commission.html I never do anything with my account, so I'm not savvy at all when it comes to editing pages and other community-related activities. Otherwise, I would flag this myself. I just don't know how. G8tr1522 (G8tr1522) 11:20, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Bomb re dysfunction.
Bomb! Thisis something for this and related articles, no? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:643:8300:B030:4863:D5AE:A835:649A (talk) 17:21, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

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Commissioner Pay?
What is the pay of a FEC Commissioner? Daniel A. Petalas, General Attorney, is paid over $169,000.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 03:22, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It looks to be $160,300 per Walther, Petersen, Hunter, Weintraub, and Goodman. Corky Buzz by the Hornet's Nest   03:31, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Membership and voting
The voting mechanism is explained in its own section. The discussion of voting in the membership section was confusing at best and has been removed.

Wiki Education assignment: Money and Politics
— Assignment last updated by Tuk28507 (talk) 18:55, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Proposed addition
Hello, I am proposing the following addition to the Deadlocks section of the article. Let me know if you have any concerns or feedback.

"In June 2023, the FEC deadlocked over requests to create guidelines for campaign advertisements which use content generated by artificial intelligence. The the vote failed 3-3 with all Republican commissioners voting against the request and all Democratic commissioners voting in favor, with Republican commissioner Allen Dickerson arguing that the agency did not have the authority to regulate such advertisements." Jdoebler (talk) 03:24, 27 September 2023 (UTC)