Great Moments in Campaign Finance Disclosure

FEC requirements are hard for the Western Representation PAC to deal with:

In response to the June 18 2012 Request For Additional 

Information (RFAI) with regards to the March monthly 

report (02/01/2012 - 02/29/2012), The committee responds

as follows:  

(1) The committee is continuing to develop a 

broader and economically feasible solution to contact all past

donors who may have not provided certain elements of information.

Given, among other matters, 

(a) the very large number of donors to this committee, 

(b) the variety of fundraising sources and processing platforms, 

(c) the many repeat small dollar donors who may or may not 

aggregate above the threshold, 

(d) the large number of donors by check, 

(e) the different ways in which donors may or may not enter 

or provide their information that creates duplicate entries in 

FEC File, and 

(f) the pace at which FEC File allows duplicate entries to be 

merged within the software - requiring up to 7 minutes per 

entry - this process is ongoing.  The Committee anticipates 

being able to resolve this issue for all donors and reports 

no later than the due date of its August Monthly report.  

(2) the itemized transactions are identified with the account 

identifier "Credit Card" in each entry.  The Commission has 

directed the Committee to alter its record keeping process.  

Because the alteration requires significant manual data entry, 

and the Committee is seeking to correct this on all reports, 

this process is ongoing but estimated to be completed no 

later than the due date of its August Monthly report.

Also, the dog ate our filing. But seriously, 7 minutes to merge duplicate entries?