Campaign finance reformers, voting rights advocates, and the general public scored a victory today as Hans von Spakovsky withdrew his nomination to the FEC.

This likely clears the way for the Senate to confirm the remaining five nominees as a package.  While we still have grave concerns over one of those nominees, Don McGhan, and concerns over the absence of another, David Mason, for what appears to be partisan retribution, we've said all along that Hans is not appropriate for the FEC and should not be approved.  And this makes it possible that we'll actually have an FEC in time for the 2008 election, which isn't a bad thing.

Good work team, again.