The Secretary of State will require staff to manually enter the campaign contribution information, which will result in a cost. It is unclear whether temporary or permanent staff would be necessary. The current Campaign Finance Information System can not accommodate these changes. Instead a separate system would need to be created which would be hyperlinked to the Secretary of State's web page where the information could be accessed. Candidate committees that raise or spend over the threshold are required to file electronically.
Current law gives all PACs the option to file electronically.
To file in electronic form, a committee must send its campaign finance reports on disk, tape, or other electronic storage medium or transmit reports on-line to the Office of the Secretary of the State. They may use either the software program created by the secretary's office or another approved software program. The refiling must be completed by the next regular campaign finance report deadline. He must send the report by facsimile machine to the secretary of the state. The report must include the amount of the contribution, and the name and address of the donor.