House committee aims to step up election oversight

The Hill's Ballot Box:
"“We’d like to see some simplification to where people don’t have to go to a lawyer every time to ask even a routine question, and that’s not asking a lot of the FEC,” Harper said. “We think that a little oversight would be consistent with what folks expect. It would be healthy for the FEC and for us, and give them an opportunity to answer some questions that we think need to be answered.”

According to Harper, the Elections subcommittee will tackle EAC issues first before it transitions to oversight of the FEC, but it aims to perform fact-finding of that commission sometime later this year."