Led by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and populated by notables from both major parties (with a few eminent civilians thrown in), the commission endorsed an array of election reforms that will not rock many boats.
But a close examination of these groups and others reveals an array of election activities that tax experts and former I.R.S. officials said would provide a legitimate basis for flagging them for closer review.
The national parties themselves also raise money, which they need for issue advocacy, for helping state and local candidates, for paying overhead expenses like the costs of computers and lawyers (to comply with the array of election laws), and for get-out-the-vote efforts that benefit all of a party's nominees on Election Day.
Given the schedule of upcoming elections -- a New York City mayoral and City Council vote this fall and a full array of state and federal elections next year -- any remedies must come in two stages.
In 2010, Republicans swept to power in many states, and adopted an array of new laws regulating elections and voting rolls.
And many folks will let go of the mouse only to pick up the remote and sample an array of cable channels with election coverage — from Comedy Central to BBC America.
Taylor C. Boas, a political scientist at Boston University who specializes in Latin American election campaigns, noted that Brazil is a large federal republic with an array of municipal, state and national elections.
In East Germany, the array of contestants for the May elections is even more dizzying; the list so far includes the Socialist Unity (Communist Party, Liberall Democrats, National Democrats, Democratic Peasants, Christian Democrats, New Forum, Democratic Awakening, Social Democratic Party, United Left, Democracy Now and Peace and Human Rights Initiative.
IN THE six weeks since Kenya's disputed election, an array of bigwigs, from the UN secretary-general to the chairman of the African Union, have flown into Nairobi to urge Kenya's warring parties to negotiate.
