Show Us the Data: The Most Wanted Government Documents

The Senate is still using a hard copy system for filing campaign finance reports. As a result of paper filing, final disclosure reports of senatorial candidates only become available to the voting public after elections because of the processing time needed by Federal Election Commission. Currently, general practices of almost ever major campaign already have the information stored electronically, so moving the information over to the FEC would not be difficult. The 110th Senate was the first to let legislation on the topic get out of committee, but it has not been brought up yet in the 111th. For more information, also visit http://www.cfinst.org/disclosure/#senate "The Senate Campaign Disparity Act (S. 223) would require Senate candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically. It was introduced in this session on January 9th by Senators Feingold (D-WI), Feinstein (D-CA), Cochran (R-MN) and a broadly bipartisan group of co-sponsors who now number more than thirty."