Registration & Reporting
Are you involved in a campaign or lobbying? Or, are you an elected or appointed official? You’re in the right place to register and report required disclosures.
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Candidates & Committees
Learn how to register your candidacy or committee and report campaign financial activity, including contributions and expenses.
Personal Financial Affairs Disclosure
Report required personal financial data at the start of a campaign and annually if you’re elected or appointed to office.
Incidental Committees
Learn if you qualify as an incidental committee and how to register and start reporting.
Lobbying
Learn how and when to report lobbying expenses and which activities must be reported.
Independent Expenditures
Learn when to report independent expenditures made in support of or opposition to a candidate or ballot measure as well as electioneering communications that identify a candidate.
Forms & Reports Directory
Know what you’re looking for? View a list of all PDC reports, with links to online filing tools.
Last Minute Contributions (LMC)
Independent Expenditures (C-6)
Incidental Committee Registration (C-1ic)
Reporting Tips
Check out the latest updates on reporting tools and resources — as well as timely reporting tips.
02/02/2023
Following two years of delivering enhancements and new features in our ORCA system, we’re about to unveil the biggest upgrade of them all.
Starting March 1, 2023, ORCA (Online Reporting of Campaign Activity) will operate as a fully web-based system, without a desktop application.
…01/30/2023
ORCA has a new import contact function that is easier and more straightforward for campaigns to use.
To import contacts to a new year or campaign, open the previous year's campaign and select search contacts. Scroll to the bottom of the contact list and select the export to CSV…
01/24/2023
If your committee is organized to support or oppose a ballot measure such as a school, fire, or library levy or bond, we recommend that you register a separate campaign for each election.
Registering as a single-election committee means you only need to do one set-up, which will cover…
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