The special election to fill the congressional seat of disgraced and expelled former U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is on Tuesday, with New York state legislator and “rising star” Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born Israeli émigré, competing against an establishment Democrat, former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi.

Earlier this year, Emma Best filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of the Department of Defense’s most recent declassification guide, with the goal of better understanding what the Pentagon believes can or can’t be released to the public. Just this week, the guide came in but with one notable omission: the entire section on what the Pentagon believes can or can’t be released to the public

With voting day finally here, we thought it would be good to take a look back at the unsung heroes of the electoral process: obscure political parties.

The agency responsible for ensuring fair elections in this country is, in the words of its own chairwoman, “worse than dysfunctional.” How did things get so bad?

The Federal Election Commission withheld it guidelines for use of the controversial b(5) FOIA exemption by … citing b(5). After an appeal, the FEC had no choice but to release the documents after it turned out they had been posted publicly on their website the entire time.