The Campaign Finance Reporting system is designed to provide online public access to information from campaign finance reports filed with the Department of State.

The information provided on these reports and by this website includes general report and filer information, contributions from individuals, other receipts, expenditures, and debts. Also, information is available on registered political and candidate committees. There are five ways to search and view information in the Campaign Finance Reporting database:
  1. Report Search. Reports can be searched by a number of selection criteria, including year, reporting cycle code, filer name, office, party, etc. Once a report has been selected, all information from that reports is available in the various sections that correspond with paper report (DSEB-502). This information can be easily printed and even downloaded to the client PC as ASCII text files.
  2. Contribution Search. Political contributions can be searched across all campaign finance reports in a given date range. Available search criteria include the contributor name, city, state, zip code, contribution date, contribution amount and recipient name.
  3. Expenditure Search. Expenditures can be searched across all campaign finance reports in a given date range. Available search criteria include the recipient name, city, state, zip code, expenditure date, expenditure amount, description and filer (payer) name.
  4. Debt Search. Debts can be searched across all campaign finance reports in a given date range. Available search criteria include the creditor name, city, state, zip code, debt date, debt amount, description and debtor (filer) name.
  5. Receipt Search. A receipt is a transaction, other than a contribution, that results in a positive change in fund balance. These can include returned contributions, refunds, interest income, among other things. Receipts can be searched across all campaign finance reports in a given date range. Available search criteria include the source of receipt name, city, state, zip code, receipt date, receipt amount, description and filer (recipient) name.
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