System outages that may prevent you from submitting PDC reports are logged here.

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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Campaign registration and financial affairs systems outage - -

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.

Lobbyist reporting system outage - -

A vendor that supports the PDC lobbyist filing system reported a problem that prevented use of accesshub.pdc.wa.gov for about 15 minutes this morning. The vendor has deployed a fix, and the system is working again. 

Lobbying filing system experiencing issue on Chrome - -

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.

PDC office closed to public: staff are working remotely -

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.

Please note that responses may be delayed due to staff furloughs for budgetary… more

Outage of F-1, campaign registration systems - -

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. 

F-1 Reporting System Unavailable - -

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.

Resolved: Some filing systems unavailable - -

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.

Planned outage: All filing systems except lobbying - -

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. 

Website, campaign registration system and lobbying efiling down - -

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.

Filing will be unavailable during planned maintenance - -

Due to planned maintenance, PDC filing systems will be unavailable for a 15-minute period between 6:15 am and 7 a.m.