Campaign Infiltration

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal court in Ohio <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/electionstatute.pdf"><strong>denied</strong></a> the nonprofit investigative journalists’ motion for a preliminary injunction in a dispute with the state’s election commission, finding that an anti-infiltration statute is constitutional even though it prohibits journalists from gaining information on political candidates by making undercover recordings. </span>

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal court denied an injunction to a nonprofit for investigative journalism in a dispute with Ohio’s election commission, finding that an anti-infiltration statute is constitutional even though it prohibits journalists from gaining information on political candidates by making undercover recordings.

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