Specifically, the definition of "disclosure date" leaves uncertain what must be disclosed after the airing of an electioneering communication when the disburser has executed contracts for electioneering communications aggregating over $10,000.
The regulations suggest that if a person has executed $10,000 in electioneering communications contracts, 24 hours after the first such communication is aired, the disburser must make a disclosure encompassing all of the electioneering communications under the contracts.
Election commission rules require that organizations and individuals placing advocacy advertising or electioneering communications report their expenditures and identify donors who gave them money for those purposes.
Some of these would: Require detailed disclosure of exactly who is sponsoring and paying for attack ads and other "electioneering communications" that the court has now made possible right up to Election Day.
McCain-Feingold barred corporations and unions from financing electioneering communications.
Electioneering communications spending by nonprofit groups that did not identify their donors, however, increased sharply.
With one exception, the court also finds the disclosure provisions relating to "electioneering communications" constitutional.
The court upheld a number of the act's key provisions, including disclosure requirements on "electioneering communications".
First, they apply only to electioneering communications, which we find constitutional.
The United States Chamber of Commerce was the biggest spender on electioneering communications not to identify any donors.
Electioneering communications are broadcast political advertisements that identify a federal candidate and air within a certain time frame.
