Federal Election Commission Rules that Jill Stein Must Repay $175,272 in 2016 Primary Season Matching Funds

On September 30, the Federal Election Commission approved a recommendation from FEC staff that Jill Stein must repay $175,272 in 2016 primary season matching funds. The FEC staff recommendation had been made on August 13, 2021. See that recommendation here.

The FEC ruled that payments made to Stein for money she raised after she received the Green Party presidential nomination on August 6, 2016 were improper and should not have been sent to Stein. The total 2016 primary season matching funds she received in 2016 was $590,936.

Stein argued that she was also seeking the Peace & Freedom Party nomination, and it didn’t nominate until mid-August 2016, so the cutoff point should have been the PFP convention date. But the FEC said that because the two major parties had both finished nominating by July 28, the old procedure by which the latest minor party nomination procedure doesn’t matter. The law is quite complicated, but because the two major parties nominated much earlier in 2020 than then had in other recent presidential years, that affected the cut-off for the Green Party. If the Peace & Freedom Party had had a national convention instead of just a state convention, then the PFP convention date could have been used.

For the 2020 election, Howie Hawkins applied for primary season matching funds, and even though it is clear he qualified, the FEC still hasn’t sent the money. But it is expected soon.


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Federal Election Commission Rules that Jill Stein Must Repay $175,272 in 2016 Primary Season Matching Funds — 18 Comments

  1. It’s already starting. The Democrats don’t want no other third party candidates taking away from their votes in 2022 and 2024. The Green Party would. Let the bleeding of Jill Stein begin.

  2. ANNOUNCING
    By James Ogle [One], volunteer vote counter
    2021-10-4

    The Republican Democratic 1Libertarian Caucus made good headway in our monthly Facebook Live event.

    The all-male three-James block (Treibert, Doyle and Ogle), made good progress and we have agreed on expanding the paper ballot rankings in the 2022 phase where the nominating and voting on paper ballots is happening now through August 5th 2022.

    I am personally dropping my own campaign to vie for LNC Chair and Vice Chair.

    I’m doing that for two reasons;

    1) so to get behind the good effort for LNC Vice Chair candidate James Treibert [Libertarian]

    2) With us two being two white males, I am dropping my bid for Chair for now, so that Honorable James Treibert and I can get behind someone not like us two. Our team is ready to nominate and vote for a name for Chair who is not a male name. Likely a non-binary gender name as our first choice.

    Men and women of the Libertarian Party. We need your help. We welcome help from all parties and independents to work together.

    We’re working to end the censorship, systemic racism, communist-style elections, double standards and gerrymandering in Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County (LPLAC) Regions #62, 62, 64, 65.

    May the current LNC one-party voting system of Approval Voting (AppV) never be acceptable. Not now. Not ever. Never can the two-party plurality voting be acceptable anywhere by us or into the future.
    * * *

    Riches and Wealth
    By CEO Buck Rogers
    2021-10-4

    It’s so easy to forget that riches and wealth have nothing to do with money or material possessions!
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  3. Approval Voting (AppV) = one biggest faction always wins both one seat at a time or all open seats by strategic slate voting = Systemic Racism

    LNC = Systemic Racism

  4. Everyone please contact the Republican Democratic 1Libertarian Caucus to help eliminate the Systemic Racism problem in the Libertarian Party.

    No way to bogus uncompetitive elections by those who have always condoned racism.

    The Republican Democratic 1Libertarian Caucus has been bringing the correct math of the Sainte Lague parliament seat distribution since April 1st 1995 and around October of 1997 the founders of a search engine deleted all our work, cemented the one-party dictatorship approval voting system worldwide, but our team is alive to fight on until death.

    No way to the LNC Old Boys Network, the 82% white male Presidential Electors of the LNC, no way to racism. Nevet.

  5. Systemic racism and patriarchy are the way to go, but they need to go to the Republican Party.

  6. Whats wrong with racism? Racism is the only thing that can save America. It’s coming back into style again.

  7. What’s racist next ???

    Repeal of 13-14-15 Amdts ???

    Reparation for ex-slavers, ALL 1861-1865 Confeds (esp dead/injured) and their creditors ???

  8. The FEC has, through this ruling and by delaying Howie’s matching funds to this extent (assuming they’re even going to send them), shown once again that it is a partisan tool for the ruling Democratic and Republican Parties. We need a truly independent FEC. Many other countries made sure that their national elections administration was independent from any party.

  9. Is that White American Supremacy and Patriarchy — WASP — as in stinging bee/hornet thing ???

    Any WASP Party yet ???

  10. During the time of this country’s founding, the population was predominantly English, but there were also sizeable minorities of Scots, Germans, Dutch, Irish, and French.

  11. When was the first attack in an Am-Brit colony by Euro invaders on native American Indians ???

    >>> Genocide of Am Indians to 1890 —

    model for Hitler in 1933-1945 in nazi controlled areas.

  12. Rufus Redd was censored.

    His censored comment:

    “W.A.S.P. stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It stands for the people who founded and built the United States of America; the people God entrusted with the experiment of a Republican form of government. It is more an ideal than a religion or race. It is the Protestant work ethic and the moral superiority of the White race, specifically the Anglo-Saxon people. It is what we should all admire and strive to be, regardless of our background.”

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