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The watchdog agency won't have enough members to legally conduct business - right in the midst of the 2020 campaign.
By Datunorro Clark @ NBCNews.com, Aug. 30
The nation's chief elections watchdog agency effectively shuts down on Saturday because it will no longer have enough members to legally meet and conduct business, prompting concern about whether the Federal Election Commission will be able to oversee how money is spent in elections and determine if campaigns are following the law.
With the resignation of Matthew Petersen, a Republican who served as the panel's vice chairman, taking effect on Aug. 31, the six-member FEC cannot reach its statutory four-member quorum, and critics argue that will leave the agency largely toothless ahead the 2020 elections.
"I think it's going to be a crisis in the electoral process," Ann Ravel, a Democrat and former commission chair whose seat is still unfilled after she resigned in 2017, told NBC News on Friday [....]
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