While the presidential campaign teams for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama can move on to their next projects, staffers and volunteers with third-party candidates are preparing for a lengthy audit by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). The Green Party’s 2012 presidential ticket of Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala is the most recent target of an FEC
The Catch-22 Of Third-Party Politics: Jill Stein’s Campaign Faces Weeks Of Audits
The Green Party campaign staff of 17 faces an audit process designed for — but routinely dodged by — campaigns hundreds of times that.