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Among Americans frustrated with the status quo, campaign stickers and t-shirts advocate for another viable presidential candidate who isn’t President Joe Biden, the Democrat, or former president Donald Trump, the Republican.
Polls have shown the sentiment has some support in the electorate, and independent presidential candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, have generated some interest.
But one upstart candidate — name: “Literally Anybody Else” — doesn’t have federal election regulators laughing.
The Federal Election Commission sent a strongly worded letter this week to the new candidate’s campaign, called the “Committee to Elect Literally Anybody Else.” The FEC’s missive reads: “It has come to the attention of the Federal Election Commission that you may have failed to include the true, correct, or complete committee information” in the application.
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It also warned that “knowingly and willfully making any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation to a federal government agency, including the Federal Election Commission, is punishable … The Commission may report apparent violations to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.”
A response from “Literally Anybody Else” is due to the FEC by April 23.
The webpage for “Literally Anybody Else” states that “America should not be stuck choosing between the ‘King of Debt’ (his self-declaration) and an 81-year old.”
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Neither the FEC application nor background on the web domain lists the name of an actual person connected to the “Literally anybody Else” committee.
But the committee lists a post office box in North Richland Hills, Texas — near Fort Worth — and there is a phone number and email address. Raw Story did not immediately receive a response to its inquiry.
The FEC receives numerous bogus campaign committee and candidate filings.
While such phony filings could violate federal campaign laws, the FEC almost never pursues the matters beyond issuing warnings and taking administrative action to bury the frivolous filings in an online database not easily accessed by the public.