This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
Anyone criticizing the Federal Election
Commission as toothless must now reckon with this: Today, the agency
took on God and Satan — plus nearly 250 other officially registered
presidential candidates it believes are bogus.
"Dear Candidate," began the letter the FEC's Reports Analysis Division sent to God for President, H. Majesty Satan Lord of Underworld Prince of Darkness!, Captain Crunch, Rocky Balboa and a cast of other characters seeking to challenge Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"It has come to the attention of the Federal
Election Commission that you may have failed to include an accurate name
of the candidate and an accurate principal campaign committee … when
you filed FEC Form 2."
The FEC didn't say exactly how the potential inaccuracies came to its
attention. But it asked the recipients to submit additional paperwork
confirming their candidacies or to withdraw the filings.
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