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The PDC has scheduled a planned outage for the early morning hours of July 2. All filing systems, except the one used to file lobbyist and lobbyist employer reports, will be offline for server maintenance. During this time, filers will not be able to submit or amend campaign registrations, file C-3s and C-4s, or access the L-5 or F-1 filing systems.
If the outage is extended, we will post an update.
The PDC's website and lobbying and campaign registration systems experienced a short outage this afternoon due to a server problem. The vendor who operates the servers applied a fix and is currently monitoring the situation.
Due to planned maintenance, PDC filing systems will be unavailable for a 15-minute period between 6:15 am and 7 a.m.
Washington state central IT services has notified the PDC that Secure Access Washington (SAW) will be unavailable Aug. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. due to planned maintenance.
SAW provides access to the PDC's campaign registration system. This outage will prevent PDC filers from using the campaign registration system to file and amend candidate and committee registrations or to create access tokens for ORCA.
The Financial Affairs Application (F1) is undergoing maintenance between 7:30a.m. and 8:30 a.m. this morning while we perform an application upgrade.
Users will be unable to file Financial Affairs Statements for a period of up to a half an hour.
Update: Actual outage was between 7:45a.m. and 8:00a.m.
UPDATE: At approximately 5 p.m., the problem was resolved and the lobbyist reporting system was operational.
Original message: The PDC was notified that a third-party cloud provider is experiencing a widespread outage. The outage is affecting the agency's lobbyist reporting system. The provider is aware of the problem and is investigating. We will provide more information when it is available.
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The outage appears to have been a transient network failure and service was quickly restored. The PDC will be checking with the WA State central IT services to determine the actual cause.
The PDC is experienced an outage that affected the systems used to file C-3s, C-4s, F-1s and L-5s.