SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – With the midterm election six days away, a viewer noticed that many political ads and yard signs do not carry a candidate’s party affiliation. Her question: Are candidates required to designate party affiliations in ads and on yard signs?
What the ads and signs show
Many of this year’s political ads and yard signs list a candidate’s name and sometimes a brief slogan. On many of the signs Fact Finders found, the words Republican or Democrat do not appear next to the name.
Professor Sheerin Haubenreich, an adjunct professor at the UMKC School of Law, said candidate ads and
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