Registration & Reporting
Are you involved in a campaign or lobbying? Or, are you an elected or appointed official? You’re in the right place to register and report required disclosures.
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Candidates & Committees
Learn how to register your candidacy or committee and report campaign financial activity, including contributions and expenses.
Personal Financial Affairs Disclosure
Report required personal financial data at the start of a campaign and annually if you’re elected or appointed to office.
Incidental Committees
Learn if you qualify as an incidental committee and how to register and start reporting.
Lobbying
Learn how and when to report lobbying expenses and which activities must be reported.
Independent Expenditures
Learn when to report independent expenditures made in support of or opposition to a candidate or ballot measure as well as electioneering communications that identify a candidate.
Forms & Reports Directory
Know what you’re looking for? View a list of all PDC reports, with links to online filing tools.
Last Minute Contributions (LMC)
Independent Expenditures (C-6)
Incidental Committee Registration (C-1ic)
Reporting Tips
Check out the latest updates on reporting tools and resources — as well as timely reporting tips.
01/24/2023
If your committee is organized to support or oppose a ballot measure such as a school, fire, or library levy or bond, we recommend that you register a separate campaign for each election.
Registering as a single-election committee means you only need to do one set-up, which will cover…
12/06/2022
If a campaign or political committee has its own credit card, here’s how to report transactions made with that credit card in the latest version of ORCA.
When your campaign gets its own credit card, click on Bank Accounts on the Accounting section of the ORCA dashboard. The Bank…
10/17/2022
Paying a person, such as an influencer, to post on social media in support of or in opposition to a candidate or ballot measure campaign meets the definition of political advertising under state law. RCW 42.17A.005 (40)
Like other political advertising, payments should be reported to the…
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