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Federal Election Commission | United States of America
  • FEC Record: Commission

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman and Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel to host public forum on website improvement

August 20, 2014

The Federal Election Commission has launched an extensive effort to improve the Commission’s website by enhancing the public’s access to and the delivery of campaign finance data. In partnership with 18F, a newly formed organization within the General Services Administration (GSA), the FEC is in the process of creating an agile, navigable, intuitive, user-based online platform to better deliver campaign finance information to all of our users.

A key part of this effort is to hear from FEC website users and the public directly. As Chairman and Vice Chair, we invite you to join us on September 17, 2014 for an informal public forum to discuss the website. The forum’s overall goal is to learn how the website’s many visitors – including individual citizens, candidates, journalists, researchers, advocates, campaign finance practitioners, and others – currently use the FEC website, how they may use the website in the future, and how the FEC can improve its website to meet those needs. We would also like to hear suggestions from the public about the variations of data the FEC could make available to the public and how that information could best be presented or customized to satisfy user preferences.

The forum will consist of two parts: (1) an open discussion with Commissioners and senior staff; and (2) working group breakout sessions with Commission staff moderated by 18F to discuss some of the technology already under development. The entire forum will be open to the public and press and will be held at the FEC, located at 999 E Street, NW, Washington D.C., on September 17, 2014. The open discussion will be held at 10:00-12:00 pm and the breakout sessions will meet from 1:00-3:00 pm.

If you would like to participate in person, please email us at websiteforum@fec.gov. Capacity is limited, so please respond promptly. Alternatively, you may listen to the open discussion through a live audio feed available on FEC.gov, which requires no pre-registration.

Please note that the forum will focus solely on improving the Commission’s website and the accessibility of campaign finance data. If the discussion raises issues that suggest the need to consider revisions to or adoption of regulations or procedures, we will address such issues through our standard, formal procedures.

We and our colleagues welcome your participation in this public forum and look forward to hearing about your experiences, ideas and suggestions to make the FEC website a better resource for the public. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either of our offices at 202-694-1000.

Sincerely,

Lee E. Goodman
Chairman
Federal Election Commission

Ann M. Ravel
Vice Chair
Federal Election Commission

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This information is not intended to replace the law or to change its meaning, nor does this information create or confer any rights for or on any person or bind the Federal Election Commission or the public.

The reader is encouraged also to consult the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.), Commission regulations (Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations), Commission advisory opinions and applicable court decisions.