Election Regulations Quotes

We expect elections to have contribution limits, and we expect to follow them.

In 1984, one out of four campaign dollars was budgeted for accountants and lawyers to circumvent—or comply with—the law.

Billboards paid for by the government, which feature the exploits or image of any candidate should not appear within 90 days before an election

New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

While normal people have to disclose donations directly to a candidate, there is no such transparency on people donating to certain types of nonprofit organizations that can play a major role in our elections.

If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any laws, under your theory, that he actually HAS to enforce?

Even though Mr. Trump can give his campaign as much of his own money as he wants to, he can't ask other people to front the money for him and promise to pay them back later without reporting the arrangement in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

Federal election laws bar candidates from the 'personal use' of campaign donations - a ban meant to stop candidates from buying things unrelated to their runs for office. If a purchase is a result of campaign activity, the government allows it.

We are narrowing the field of those who will run for office when we allow them so little privacy.

From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.