{"id":28815,"date":"2011-04-27T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28815"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:36:08","slug":"there%e2%80%99s-new-trouble-with-the-state%e2%80%99s-campaign-reporting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/there%e2%80%99s-new-trouble-with-the-state%e2%80%99s-campaign-reporting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s new trouble with the state\u2019s campaign reporting system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s new trouble with the secretary of state\u2019s campaign finance reporting system, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/upfront\/27221927886upfront04-27-11.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>From the newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cElected holders of state and county offices, candidates for those offices and political action committees couldn\u2019t use the system to file their finance reports due April 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe snafu comes just a year after the system was brought online, and it means the public currently can\u2019t use the system and its search capabilities to review campaign contributions and expenditures for the period of Nov. 28 to April 4.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Secretary of State\u2019s Office hopes to have the problem fixed in about six weeks, according to the newspaper.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What exactly is the problem? Here\u2019s the explanation, from the Journal\u2019s Thomas J. Cole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cKen Ortiz, chief of staff for Secretary of State Dianna Duran, said the office discovered about three months ago that the system hadn\u2019t been configured to accept the April 11 reports from officeholders, candidates and PACs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrtiz said the office decided against moving immediately to fix the problem because the Legislature was considering changes in the number and timing of campaign finance reports to be filed in nonelection years like 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, the Secretary of State\u2019s Office didn\u2019t want its government contractor to configure the system to accept the April reports, only to be told a short time later that it needed to reconfigure the system for other reports. The Legislature didn\u2019t change the reporting requirements before adjourning in mid-March.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Journal reported that candidates were able to file their finance reports in another way \u2013 on a spreadsheet or using printed forms \u2013 but those numbers aren\u2019t inputted into the system\u2019s searchable database.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz told the Journal his office will manually input the data from the April 11 reports into the system once it\u2019s configured to accept reports from that date.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you can find the April 11 reports by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/CFReport2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s new trouble with the secretary of state\u2019s campaign finance reporting system, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,107],"class_list":["post-28815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}