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Printable pre-election filing dates #9574

Open JonellaCulmer opened 4 years ago

JonellaCulmer commented 4 years ago

Comment in webmanager inbox:

How hard would it be to provide the congressional primary filing schedule in a pdf so it could be printed? The FEC used to be able to do this, when there was another contractor. It is hard enough to find this information on the FEC’s new website in the first place, so if we could download or print a pdf it would be handy and useful. Not that public disclosure and information about campaign finance is a core purpose of the FEC.

PaulClark2 commented 4 years ago

@JonellaCulmer is this what the emailer is looking for, https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2020/2020pdates.pdf

dorothyyeager commented 4 years ago

It's on https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/election-dates/ and direct link is https://www.fec.gov/documents/2020/2020pdates.pdf.

JonellaCulmer commented 4 years ago

Thank you both. I'll pass it along to the requester.

JonellaCulmer commented 4 years ago

Conversation with user below.

Me: Sends aforementioned (^^) links

User: No, I have had this for a while. What I thought would be handy is each state and the congressional filing schedule per the following columns. Election Date Close of books date Certified mail due date Electronic filing date 48 hour reporting dates

Right now this information is only accessible on a screen that you have to scroll and scroll down, but the column headings do not remain fixed so it can be unclear what a date signifies, and then you have to scroll and scroll up to verify and then scroll down and down again to the state to make sure of the date you are looking for. Thank you.

Me: Okay, thanks for clarifying further.

We also have this chart that is sortable by state. It doesn’t have the exact columns you mentioned, but some. Do you find this difficult to print and save?

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2020-reporting-dates/congressional-pre-election-reporting-dates-2020/

User: This does not print well AT ALL. Plus, scroll down to the WA state primary and what is each column heading? I would be nice to have a pdf with column headings on the top of every page like before.

Me: Thanks for that feedback. Are you mostly interested in the full list, and not specific states?

User: I am generally interested in specific states but the full schedule is very helpful for reference because you never know what information you will need. For example, on Monday no one really needed the dates for the run-off in Alabama, and now the run-off is a hot topic.