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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has entered into conciliation agreements with Charles Kushner, a New Jersey-based real estate developer, and 40 partnership entities he controls. The agreements settle an investigation stemming from over $500,000 in contributions that the partnerships made without obtaining the agreement of the individual partners to whom the contributions were attributed. The contributions were made between December 5, 1997 and August 17, 2000 for the 1999-2000 election cycle. Recipients of these contributions included 13 candidate committees, one party committee and one PAC. The conciliation agreement with the Kushner Respondents resulted in a civil penalty of $508,900. The...

Results of Chicago Teacher's Union election thrown out June 29, 2004 — The results of the recent election for Chicago Teachers Union president have been declared invalid. Special education teacher Marilyn Stewart won the June Eleventh contest, but a union committee says the election was possibly unfair. Stewart beat sitting president Deborah Lynch by 566 votes. An attorney for the union says the results have been thrown out because many more ballots were sent out than returned. The attorney also says many teachers were absent on the day of the election, but their votes were still recorded. Also, about 25...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that redistricting plans for Georgia's state legislature violated the constitutional "one person, one vote" principle in a defeat for state Democrats who put forward the proposal. The justices affirmed a ruling in February by a three-judge federal court panel that threw out the legislative map for the state House of Representatives and Senate as unconstitutional. The lower court found a deliberate and systematic policy of favoring rural and inner city interests in the redistricting plans at the expense of suburban areas around Atlanta. It also found an intentional effort to...