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Due to mandatory training, Public Disclosure Commission staff members will be unavailable for most of Thursday, March 4. Please send an email to pdc@pdc.wa.gov, and we will reply on Friday, March 5.
PDC phone lines, which run on Microsoft Teams, are not operating due to the worldwide Teams outage. Some callers are able to get through to voicemail. If you have left a message there, we will call you back on Tuesday morning after service has been restored. The quickest way to reach us is to send email to pdc@pdc.wa.gov.
Update 1/28/2021 6:55
The maintenance operation has encountered an error. The outage is now expected to last until 7:30 AM.
Due to planned maintenance, PDC systems for candidate and committee registrations, reporting of personal financial affairs, and submission of C-3s and C-4s will be unavailable from 4:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28.
PDC staff have taken the filing systems for candidate and committee registrations, financial affairs reports, and campaign finance reports offline to conduct troubleshooting.
We will update this message when the system is back online or we have an estimate of when it will return to service.
UPDATE: Troubleshooting is completed, and the systems are back online.
An issue caused by data migration is preventing some candidates and committee from submitting C-3s and C-4s. Technicians are investigating, and we expect to have an estimate of when it will be resolved later today.
UPDATE at 1 p.m.: PDC staff expect a partial fix will be in place by 4 p.m.
UPDATE at 3:30 p.m.: The data migration error has been fixed, and most committees should be able to file C-3s and C-4s now.
ORCA users: open your campaign and go to File>Committee Information. If information is missing, click the "sync campaign" button.
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Filers of Last Minute Contribution reports were unable to submit during a window of time Oct. 20. PDC staff have not determined a cause and are investigating.
Brief outage for planned maintenance. Financial Affairs reporting, Campaign registration systems will be unavailable. Users of ORCA (Online Reporting of Campaign Activity) and third-party campaign finance software will be unable to file C-3 and C-4 reports.
Weekend-long outage for planned maintenance begins Friday evening Nov. 13. We anticipate system will be back up Monday Nov. 16 at 7 a.m. This outage will affect campaign finance reports; candidates and committees will be unable to file C-3s and C-4s.
Users are reporting problems submitting Last Minute Contribution reports. PDC staff are investigating. We do not currently have an estimate for when service will be restored, but will post an update in the next hour.
UPDATE: The application appears to be operating again. PDC staff are monitoring the situation.
Filers were unable to login to manage campaign registrations and financial affairs statements for a period of about three minutes while WaTech performed unscheduled maintenance.