Word: smythã
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...general election. Since joining the commission in June, 2000, I have led the fight against an FEC legislative recommendation to Congress that the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act, which is administered by the FEC, be changed to make it harder for third parties to qualify for government funds. Smyth??s specific complaint seems to be that I have been critical of the Shays-Meehan campaign finance regulation bill recently passed by Congress, ignoring the fact that one reason I have been critical of the bill is that it is highly unfavorable to third parties...
...elections governed by an unaccountable bureaucracy? Under the current structure of the commission, no one party can control the commission. Would we want a system that would allow adherents of one party to gain control of the commission, under the guise of “independence”? Smyth??s proposal ignores the fundamental fact that government is by definition, also political, and that is why we have elections in the first place...