Simplify Reporting and Compliance, Enable Unprecedented Transparency
Our integrated solutions make navigating the world of campaign finance a breeze for public servants, campaigns, PACs, members of the media, and engaged citizens alike.
| Campaign Finance Solution Online application that simplifies reporting and automates compliance | Campaign Finance Portal Online dashboard that shows the flow of money in politics | Ethics API Automates the delivery of data to government systems |
Campaign Finance Solution
Featuring automation, user-centric design, built-in templates, and visual reporting, our Campaign Finance Solution eliminates manual processes, making entering, accessing, and analyzing data fast and easy.
Configurable for Every Election
Even though campaign finance rules vary between jurisdictions and political races, our solution can be configured for the specific laws governing each election. So, users don’t have to be campaign finance experts to ensure compliance – it’s all baked into an automated, user-friendly experience.
Automated for Ease and Efficiency
Automated Compliance
Knowing and staying current with federal, state, and municipal campaign finance laws takes a lot of time and expertise. Our solution incorporates the statutory requirements specific to each election (even as they change) to help users avoid mistakes, ensure compliance, and view a campaign’s status in real time.
Automated Communications
Configurable communication tools standardize, generate, and automatically send both physical and electronic correspondence, including filing schedule notices, key date reminders, and fines.
Automated Financial Tracking
Keeping tabs on contributions and expenditures has never been easier. When users exceed statutory limits, our solution automatically warns filers and administrators of the violations.
Campaign Finance Solution Benefits
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS
Save Time & Resources
by allowing external stakeholders to submit, access, and parse information directly
Free Up
Staff
by automating communications, fines, reports, and other processes
Improve Efficiency
with accessible electronic data, visual reports, and real-time notifications
Ensure Compliance
with actionable real-time data and automatic notifications
Head Off Violations
by identifying potential problems early
Reduce Investigation Time
with accessible electronic data
Eliminate Data Errors
through business rule enforcement and user guidance
Simplify Auditing
by providing electronic data that is organized in an instant
CAMPAIGNS & PACs
Simplify Reporting
through an online dashboard where users can submit financial data, manage accounts, produce reports, and file documents
Avoid Mistakes
like fines, penalties, and dings on reputations
Maintain Compliance
with auto notifications of key dates, reporting requirements, and violations
Save Time and Resources
with a process that reduces the need for campaign finance expertise and the time it takes to file
PUBLIC
Transparency
through easy access to public data 24/7 via an online portal
Engagement and Confidence
knowing your government is leveraging leading-edge tech to make campaign finance data accessible and actionable
See the Flow of Funds
with the ability to parse and organize data by individual donors and campaigns
Georgia Deploys Civix Tech to Revolutionize Campaign Finance & Ethics Disclosures
Transparency is one of the core tenants of a healthy democratic republic. However, managing information on consistently record-breaking political campaign contributions and volumes of personal financial disclosures is a massive obstacle – one that state ethics commissions across the U.S. are constantly working to overcome. By deploying technology from public sector software company Civix, the Georgia Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission has completely revolutionized how people file and find disclosures – and how the Commission fulfills its mission.
“Civix offered the most comprehensive out-of-the-box system that we were able to modify to meet our unique requirements. It brought together campaign finance and personal disclosures into a single, seamless system.”
Erwin Yap
Georgia Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission
Campaign Finance Portal
Relieve staff and empower citizens with information that is easily accessible 24/7 through the Civix Campaign Finance Portal.
It’s a solution for state and local governments to provide easy, unprecedented transparency into campaign finance – and it even provides an opportunity to generate revenue.
An Unprecedented Level of Transparency
Our online portal provides access to the ethics data collected by most states. Interactive visuals and layers of filters make it easy to sort through and decipher the web of information.
View and Compare Contributions by:
- Contest
- Geography
- Donor
- Recipient
- Time Period
View and Compare
Users can choose the data sets they’d like to see, selecting filters for geography, reporting cycle, public office, donor name, donor type, amount, and much more. The Compare page provides two zones in which to filter and present data.
Follow the Flow of Funds
Through the Donor Name Decomposition Tree, users can trace funds flowing between donors, PACs, and political campaigns. And since reports aren’t always submitted under precisely the same name, our proprietary algorithm combines similar names so that the total contribution per donor is more accurate.
Map
The Donor Location page provides an interactive geographic map of every donor along with their contributions, recipients, and party affiliation. Users can easily filter and compare donations by geographic area.
Timeline
Contribution sums and counts can be plotted on a timeline. This helps campaigns spot trends and measure the success of fundraising efforts, and it helps agencies enforce blackout periods.
Campaign Finance Portal Benefits
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS
Source of truth
be the “source of truth” for data when all filing occurs
PUBlic confidence
improve transparency with automatic online visibility
REVENUE
charge subscription fees for Portal access, creating a new revenue stream
PUBLIC
Transparency
access public data 24/7 via an online portal
Engagement and Confidence
take pride in your government leveraging leading-edge tech to enable transparency
See the Flow of Funds
parse and organize data by individual donors and campaigns
Ethics API
The Ethics API integrates with third-party software to make data transfer and report filing quick and easy.
- Allows large quantities of financial data to be transferred in the appropriate report format
- Ensures compliance with campaign finance laws
- Improves transparency by automatically publishing filed information online
Integrate with Political Campaign Software
When states offer the Civix Ethics API, campaigns that use approved third-party software can now side-step a typically complicated, cumbersome process to file compliant campaign finance reports – quickly and seamlessly.
Provide Unprecedented Transparency
Beyond happy filers, states give public confidence a big boost through the increased transparency that comes with visible campaign finance data.
Features
Worry-Free Automated Filing
Filers with approved third-party software can use the Ethics API to transfer financial transactions and file disclosure reports directly in state systems. No longer do filers have to export/format/import data or manually enter financial transactions from their third-party software into state systems.
Multiple Large Data Imports
Multi-threaded processing enables more efficient use of the state’s computing resources. Users uploading large files won’t block others, meaning multiple filers can import their financial data at the same time.
Ensuring Speed During Peak Filing Periods
The Ethics API uses Amazon S3 to scale up when demand is high around filing deadlines – in a budget-friendly way.
Future Proof
Built on the latest AWS (Amazon Web Services) technology and provided as a SAAS (Software as a Service) model, the Ethics API never goes out of date.
Ethics API Benefits
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS
Customer Satisfaction
wow filers with a quick and easy reporting process
Source of Truth
be the “source of truth” for data when all filing occurs
Public Confidence
improve transparency with automatic online visibility
REVENUE
charge subscription fees for access to the Ethics API
CAMPAIGNS & PACs
Efficiency
seamlessly file reports, eliminating the need to export/ import data or enter it manually
Speed
file reports in a matter of minutes, meeting regulatory deadlines
Accuracy
rest assured that data in the campaign software matches what’s in the state system
Compliance
easily meet regulatory requirements with worry-free automated filing
PUBLIC
Transparency
access public data 24/7 via an online portal
Engagement & Confidence
take pride in your government leveraging leading-edge tech to enable transparency
See the Flow of Funds
parse and organize data by individual donors and campaigns
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