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Reports will not be considered late when they are filed the next business day following an unplanned outage of 15 minutes or more, or a scheduled outage of 30 minutes or more between 11 p.m and 5 a.m. See WAC 390-19-045.
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The lobbyist/lobbyist employer electronic application is currently experiencing problems for users of Google Chrome due to a recent update. We are working to release a patch which should correct the error. In the meantime, filers may use Edge, Safari or Firefox as the browser to access the application.
The Public Disclosure Commission temporarily closed its office on Monday, March 16, to protect the health of its employees and the public.
The agency continues to operate remotely, and assistance remains available. Email your question to pdc@pdc.wa.gov, and a PDC staff member will reply as promptly as possible. If you don't have access to email, you can reach us by phone at 360-753-1111.
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The PDC's electronic filing applications for financial affairs disclosures (F-1s) and registration of candidates and political committees will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, March 18, while the agency performs system maintenance.
The Financial Affairs Disclosure (F-1) system will be unavailable during the migration to a new electronic filing application. The new system, scheduled to go live Jan. 2, will guide step-by-step through the reporting, using a series of questions, drop-down menus and other features. It's designed to simplify the user experience, prevent errors and answer questions about who must file and when.
UPDATE: Service has been restored as of 4:25 p.m. Reports that were due today will not be considered late until after Wednesday, Oct. 16.
Original message: PDC is experiencing outages in the Online Reporting of Campaign Activity (ORCA), independent expenditure and electioneering communications (C-6) reporting, personal financial affairs (F-1) disclosure and public agency lobbying (L-5) systems. Technicians are working to resolve the problem. We do not currently have an estimate for when service will be restored, but will post an update in the next hour.
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.