It was certified as a national party by the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ) in September 1992, making it eligible for federal campaign funds.

On March 31, 2000 the FEC certified primary season matching funds for John Hagelin, who was seeking the nomination of the Natural Law and Reform Parties.

In telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction ( FEC ) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels.

The maximum fractions of errors or of missing bits that can be corrected is determined by the design of the FEC code, so different forward error correcting codes are suitable for different conditions.

This early rise through the ranks, and extensive leadership experience earned him the nickname " FEC ", which is thought to have stood for " future England captain ".

In his autobiography Opening Up, Atherton is candid about the fact that there are more colourful alternatives for " FEC "; the second word being " educated "; as suggested by his team mates at the time.

* The Federal Election Commission ( FEC ) oversees campaign financing for all federal elections.

Two months later, in Speechnow. org v. FEC, the Federal Court of Appeals for the D. C.

" Critics also claim that most FEC penalties for violating election law come well after the actual election in which they were committed.

At the same time, however, other critics, such as former FEC Chairman Bradley A. Smith and Stephen M. Hoersting, Executive Director of the Center for Competitive Politics, criticize the FEC for pursuing overly aggressive enforcement theories, and for infringing on First Amendment rights of free speech.

The physical layer net bitrate, information rate, useful bit rate, payload rate, net data transfer rate, coded transmission rate, effective data rate or wire speed ( informal language ) of a digital communication channel is the capacity excluding the physical layer protocol overhead, for example time division multiplex ( TDM ) framing bits, redundant forward error correction ( FEC ) codes, equalizer training symbols and other channel coding.

Each campaign ( for federal office ) has to run a PAC that reports revenue and expenses to the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ).

The new American government standards for automatic link establishment ( ALE ) in High Frequency ( HF ) radio systems specifies the use of an extended ( 24, 12 ) Golay block code for forward error correction ( FEC ).

Although the FEC did promulgate a new rule in the fall of 2004 requiring some 527s participating in federal campaigns to use at least 50 % " hard money " ( contributions regulated by the Federal Election Campaign Act ) to pay their expenses, the FEC did not change its regulations on when a 527 organization must register as a federal " political committee "- prompting Representatives Shays and Meehan to file a federal court lawsuit against the FEC for the Commission's failure to adopt a 527 rule.

Renzi was fined $ 1, 000 in November 2005 by the FEC for underreported receipts stemming from what his campaign called a software glitch.

During the summer before the 2006 election, the FEC dropped all charges related to the 2002 alleged use of impermissible corporate funds for his campaign.

FEC records show that the John S. Fund, the PAC for John Shimkus, contributed to former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in 2005.

In May 2004, the FEC voted to not write new rules on the application of federal campaign finance laws to 527 organizations.

In December 2006 the FEC entered settlements with three 527 groups the Commission found to have violated federal law by failing to register as " political committees " and abide by contribution limits, source prohibitions and disclosure requirements during the 2004 election cycle.

In 2006 and 2007 the FEC fined a number of organizations, including MoveOn and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, for violations arising from the 2004 campaign.

Erik Smith, president of the Media Fund, would later issue a statement pointing out that the FEC settlement did not find his group in violation of the law. The FEC had already fined a number of the other major 527s for illegal spending during the 2004 elections, including the Democratic-leaning groups MoveOn. org and the George Soros-backed America Coming Together, as well as the Republican-supporting groups Progress for America Voter Fund and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

The National Republican Congressional Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission ( FEC ) against The " John and Ken Show " on Los Angeles AM radio station KFI ) alleging that the hosts, employees of Clear Channel Communications were engaging in an illegal contribution to Matthews ' campaign.

In 2008, an FEC complaint was filed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ( DCCC ) against the National Republican Congressional Committee ( NRCC ) and an independent organization, Freedom ’ s Watch.

Since the summer of 2007, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report and a number of other political analysts listed Carney's District as " slightly " leaning Democratic in 2008, and according to the FEC Carney has raised over $ 500, 000 towards his re-election in the first six months of 2007.

FEC # 446, an EMD GP40-3

According to the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ), the NLP spent $ 2. 3 million on its presidential campaign in the 1999-2000 election cycle.

The transmissions, on 11. 680 GHz ( Vertical polarity, FEC 2 / 3, S / R 27. 5MBaud ), currently appear only by adding the channel manually on Sky Digital equipment, and the channel is currently recognised by a code number, “ 51108 ”.

* created and fixed the method of appointing members to the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ) ( formerly 2 U. S. C.

The FM service is also available online and from the Astra 1N satellite at 28. 2 ° East on transponder 43 ( 10. 744 GHz horizontal, symbol rate 22000, FEC 5 / 6, service ID 9611 ).

Tri-Rail officials project that the project would cost about $ 2. 5 billion and that 59, 000 people per day would ride it, The FEC, which denied the state's request to use the line for commuter rail in the 1980s, under new ownership has now stated that it is willing to allow the use of the segment of track between downtown Miami and Jupiter for passenger trains.

Further, while freight trains were operated with non-union and supervisory crews, passenger runs were not reinstated until August 2, 1965, after the City of Miami sued and the Florida courts ruled that the FEC corporate charter required both coach and first class passenger services to be offered.

The FEC pioneered operation with 2 man crews with no crew districts, which they were able to start doing after the 1963 strike.

The former frequency of this channel on Eurobird, 11. 260Ghz ( Vertical, Symbol Rate 27. 5Mbaud, FEC 2 / 3 ) currently carries a standard colour bar test pattern.

* E3-Total of 17 A units plus 2 B units built, for ATSF ( 1 A, 1 B ), ACL ( 2 A ), RI ( 2 A ), FEC ( 2 A ), KCS ( 2 A, + ex EMC demonstrator A ), C & NW ( 4 A ), MP ( 2 A ), and UP ( 1 A, 1 B ).

: Example 6: If a forward error correction ( FEC ) code with code rate 1 / 2 is added, meaning that the encoder input bit rate is one half the encoder output rate, the spectral efficiency is 50 % of the modulation efficiency.

Forward error correction ( FEC ) may provide another 2 – 3 dB of loss budget on GPON systems.

* FEC filings for GOA's PAC

During the bankruptcy trial in September 1989, an FBI agent destroyed evidence ( credit card receipts, cancelled checks, and FEC filings ) immediately after he had promised the court he would preserve them.

* Boris Krymskiy ( I )-an independent candidate according to some FEC filings,

The word " coded " comes from the use of forward error correction ( FEC ).

Hagelin was excluded from the presidential debates and he asked the FEC to take over the process.

This unusual usage of FEC redundancy is the primary innovation that differentiates ALE from previous selective calling systems which either decoded a call or failed to decode due to noise or interference.

Under the FEC rules, leadership PACs are non-connected PACs, and can accept donations from individuals and other PACs.

* Campaign contributions of The Bob Barr Leadership Fund from the FEC

Private organizations are legally prohibited from using these data to solicit new individual donors ( and the FEC authorizes campaigns to include a limited number of " dummy " names as a measure to prevent this ), but may use this information to solicit Political Action Committees.

The FEC also concluded that the committee had illegally financed much of the campaign with $ 369, 090 of loans that came from " impermissible " corporate funds.

The FEC found that these campaign focused activities were so closely coordinated with the campaign that they represented contributions from the Victory Fund to Evans.

Investigation by the FEC, including deposition of officials from both organizations, revealed indirect connections between McCarthy and the Bush campaign ( such as his having previously worked for Ailes ), but found no direct evidence of wrongdoing, and the investigation reached an impasse and was eventually closed with no finding of any violation of campaign finance laws.

The Playdium FEC is situated on a site spanning in Mississauga located directly across the street from Square One Shopping Centre.

The plan is being fast-tracked in phases to provide service on the FEC portion from Downtown Fort Lauderdale and Downtown Miami's Government Center Station as soon as 2014.

The FEC determined that more than 90 percent of the $ 60 million raised by the Media Fund came from labor unions, corporations or from donors who gave more $ 5, 000 — all contributions barred by federal election rules.

Before it became the FEC, the Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River was constructing a line southwards from Daytona Beach in 1894.

During the Great Depression, Edward Ball, who controlled the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust, purchased a majority ownership of FEC, by buying its bonds on the open market, allowing the FEC to emerge from bankruptcy following protracted litigation with a group of the company's other bondholders, led by S. A. Lynch and associated with the Atlantic Coast Line which had proposed an alternate plan of reorganization.

The FEC also hauls normal " manifest " freight to and from points along its right of way.

Additionally, the FEC currently transports Tropicana Products " Juice Train " cars to and from one of the company's processing facilities located on the " K Line.

Circuit Court ultimately ruled in 2005 that because Congress vested discretionary power in the FEC ( meaning that an FEC action would have to rise to the level of arbitrary and capricious to be challenged ), the court would not overrule the FEC's determinations that " found that the third-party challengers had failed to provide ' evidence that the CPD is controlled by the DNC or the RNC ,'" and that the CPD provided sufficient rationale for barring third party candidates from entering the debates as audience members out of fear they might have disrupted the live debates in protest over having been excluded as debate particpants.

Government Center was developed in the late 1890s as the southern terminus of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway ( FEC ) from 1896 through 1905 ( see Overseas Highway ).