First Quarter FEC Campaign Filing
March 31 is only days away and it is time to get all your ducks in order to hit your first FEC quarterly filing of the year. For all you new congressional campaigns (who are not using Crimson), here is a quick check list for what you need to pull together for your Q1 Federal Election Commission filing.Crimson users are able to generate their FEC filings right out of Crimson with no muss and no fuss which is perfect for your first congressional race. If you are not a Crimson user, signup today and we can make your FEC filing pain go away.More than 7,500 FEC reports have been generated by Crimson technologies, including reports for 6 of the leading 2012 Republican presidential campaigns.Here is a quick checklist of the data and things you will need completed for your filing:
- Records of all:
- check and cash donations
- credit card donations
- online donations
- telemarketing donations
- operating expenditures
- bounced checks
- chargebacks
- refunds
- in-kind contributions
- earmark contributions
- joint fundraising distributions
- prior period voids
- debits and loans
- Reconcile all bank credits
- Reconcile all bank debits
- Creation of master bank reconciliation
- Resolution of all:
- over limit donors
- exception donations
- excessive anonymous donations
- excessive cash donations
- missing or incomplete addresses
- duplicate records
- Confirmation of eligibility for all contributions with foreign addresses
- Confirmation of eligibility for all contributions from LLCs
- Updates for all
- compliance exception replies
- best effort requests for occupation and employer information
- Ensure use of proper descriptions and memo text
- Ensure FEC report matches master bank reconciliation and cash on hand totals