[EL] Some notes on the new FEC site

[Jerald Lentini]

I was one of the beta testers on the new site, and the designers were very
responsive to feedback. The data is now much easier to search, including
individual donors and recipients across multiple committees within an
election cycle. You can search for every federal committee that, for
example, hired a particular consulting firm or attorney, or every time that
a particular donor made an itemized donation in a cycle.

There is one big flaw I've noticed on the "search elections by location
feature, which is that *parts of the new site fail to account for
redistricting*. For example, if you want to find the FL-13 race from 2006
(what used to be the most expensive in history back in the good old days),
you could put in a Sarasota ZIP code like 34243 into the "Lookup elections
by location" tool. If you do that, however, it will only return results
from FL-16, which is the present district that Sarasota is in. So instead
of the 2006 Buchanan vs. Jennings contest in FL-13, you get results from
the 2006 Foley/Negron vs. Mahoney contest from FL-16. *Be aware of this
flaw when searching historical races.*

-Jerald

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

> *Looking Good: New FEC Website Relaunches
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92798>*
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> Posted on May 24, 2017 8:14 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92798> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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> Looks <http://www.fec.gov/> to be a great improvement.  Kudos!
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