"Nor did it commission a thorough independent assessment of the whole system to see whether it was technically sound.
In 2004 the Guardian revealed how uSwitch was manipulating its website to push unwary consumers towards the power companies that paid it commission, rather than the very cheapest suppliers.
Mr. Atkins and Ms. Glassman, the agency's two Republican commissioners, have publicly expressed concerns about the measure and privately opposed it, commission officials said, while the two Democrats, Mr. Campos and Mr. Goldschmid, have supported it.
See, e.g., 1 T. Cooley, Law of Torts 244 (3d ed. 1906) ("All who actively participate in any manner in the commission of a tort, or who command, direct, advise, encourage, aid or abet it commission, are jointly and severally liable therefor").
"If someone came in and let's say he was [polling] at 14.5percentt and the margin of error in five polls was three points, we are going to have to sit down and look at it," commission co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf told CNBC.
"Starting the conversation about moving forward, we really need to be very judicious about how much we transfer, where the first priority needs to be maintaining the integrity of the system so we're not depleting it," commission President Zanku Armenian said at the Aug. 6 meeting.
