Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission: Independent agency responsible for administering and enforcing laws that cover federal election campaigns.
Also known as: FEC
Definition
Independent agency responsible for administering and enforcing laws that cover federal election campaigns. The FEC oversees the public financing of presidential elections, ensures public disclosure of campaign finance activities, monitors campaign contributions and expenditures, regulates the campaign activities of political action committees (PACs), and investigates reports of violations. It is composed of six commissioners appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
(FEC) Independent agency responsible for administering and enforcing laws that cover federal election campaigns. The FEC oversees the public financing of presidential elections, ensures public disclosure of campaign finance activities, monitors campaign contributions and expenditures, regulates the campaign activities of political action committees (PACs), and investigates reports of violations. It is composed of six commissioners appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.
- Definition 3
FEC Standards Voluntary voting system performance a nd testing standards developed by the FEC. Now known as the FEDERAL VOTING SYSTEM STANDARDS. Federal ballot A ballot restricted to Federal offices provided to an OVERSEAS VOTER. Texas Elec. Code. §114.001. Federal election Unfortunately, this term does not always mean an election for FEDERAL OFFICE. “[A]n election held to: (A) Nominate a political party's candidate for congress or its candidates for elector for president and vice president; (B) Determine the presidential preference of a political party's members; or (C) Choose a member of congress or electors for president and vice president.” Tenn. Code §2-1-104(9). A “gener al or primary election in which an elector may vote for individuals for the office of president of the Un ited States or for the United States congress.” Mont. Code Ann. §13-1-101(12). HAVA uses the term “Federal election” nine times (other than in the proper name “Federal Election Commission”) and “election for Federal office” 16 times. Neither term is defined in the statute, nor do they mean the same thing. Federal Election Commission A body primarily concerned with oversight of cam paign financing that promulgated sets of voluntary voting system standards in 1990 and 2002 known as the FEC STANDARDS which have now been supplanted by the VOLUNTARY VOTING SYSTEM GUIDELINES. Abbreviated FEC. Federal Information Processing Standards “Standards for federal computer systems developed by NIST. These standards are developed when there are no existing industry standards to address federal requirements for system