When Federal Law Takes Precedence Where federal laws and state laws appear to overlap, the Federal Election Campaign Act (the Act) and Commission regulations take precedence in two broad areas: 1. Prohibitions on election-financing activities by foreign nationals, national banks and federally chartered corporations (2 U.S.C. §441e and 11 CFR 110.4(a); §441b(a) and 11 CFR 114.2(a)); and 2. *Laws that pertain to the financing of federal elections (2 U.S.C. §453; 11 CFR 108.7(a))."
https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/fed_state_law_brochure.pdf
k so federal law overrides the constitution? Interesting, wasn't aware. State election law > federal election law. It's plainly written in the constitution, they're state elections...
(in this instance the elections are federal but "they are the State's" is how to read that)
...and the 10th dictates the rest. The supremacy clause has no bearing here either as because elections - federal (see above, it's hard to write) - are specified in the constitution then the restriction is specifically on the federal government and per the 10th it goes to the states.
Campaign Finance Law, not Election Law. That is the distinction.
And Federal elections (States') is ran and decided by State law. This is an example of the government being too big and sticking it's nose in something it has zero authority over.
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