Interesting timing:
A number of Legislators have raised concerns about the Government Accountability Board’s new Campaign Finance Information System and the staff’s responsiveness to problems that you or your campaign treasurers have encountered. Although we anticipated that there would be problems and concerns with any new system, we have been surprised by the number. We apologize for the anxiety this has created.
We want to assure you that we are committed to having a user-friendly, intuitive reporting system that will, at the same time, bring to the citizens of this State enhanced transparency and unprecedented accessibility to information about the financing of political campaigns in Wisconsin.
Filing deadline. We understand that many individuals are encountering difficulties in using the system or in being able to file completed reports. – Government Accountability Office press release 2/4/2009
I can sympathize with the fact that the GAB only has 5 full time employees to handle an entire State’s ethics, campaign, and election questions. But one of the things the CFIS web site was supposed to do was lessen the work load on those employees, not make their jobs harder.
…Just like any good use of technology.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
