The US Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system went offline after reports of a hack, just six days before Election Day, potentially obscuring last-minute spending by super PACs. As of 7:48 pm UTC on Tuesday, the FEC said the outage continued while its IT staff worked to restore service. Since Sunday, filings showed no new expenditures from crypto-aligned super PACs such as Fairshake and Digital Freedom Fund, though super PACs must normally report spending of $1,000 or more within 24 hours. Digital Freedom Fund reported spending more than $572,000 on text messages supporting Republican Senate candidates, mostly for Ken Paxton's campaign in Texas. In Ohio, Fairshake had reported spending $56 million on media opposing Sherrod Brown and supporting Jon Husted.
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