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Re:Bankman-Fried, others made 300 illegal political donation... by ModernMech on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:33PM (#34914517)
The FEC has 6 commissioners, and requires 4 for a quorum. In 2019, the FEC was down to 3 members, leaving the FEC without the ability to do any business.

In May 2020, a 4th member was finally added but then another one retired, leaving the commission out of operation again until December 2020.

Once they were operational again, they were probably backlogged and not fully operational. It could be that they were busy doing oversight of the 2020 election when they were out of commission, leaving the 2022 election vulnerable.

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Re:Bankman-Fried, others made 300 illegal political donation... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:25PM (#34916694)
They are both horrendously backlogged and paralyzed on important issues by partisan polarization (the FEC, unlike most “independent” executige agencies, has an even partisan split with no tiebreaker.)
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