Did Super PACs Violate Election Laws in 2014 Midterms? Twitter Offers Clues

Republicans and outside groups covertly conspired to skirt campaign finance laws using one of the most public social media available: Twitter.

That’s according to a report by CNN’s Chris Moody, “How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws,” that suggests that Republicans and Republican-oriented super PACs and advocacy groups used Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, “a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination,” writes CNN.

The strategy appears to be something out of a spy movie.

Anonymous Twitter accounts, including @TruthTrain14 and @brunogianelli44, named after the fictional character in “The West Wing” who pushed for the use of “soft money” in campaign funding, were set up in the months leading up to November’s midterm elections. Enigmatic messages were periodically tweeted; inscrutable to most, they conveyed internal polling data, which could signal to outside groups where to devote campaign resources.

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