"We're also working on a couple of new processes to help search and visualize data from the reports we receive. This is our attempt to find something for PACs and Parties that works as well as the maps do as a basic navigational tool for campaigns.
One example is a graphical summary of PAC or Party financial information that would be a starting point for searching through different subsets of committees or viewing information about one specific committee. For example, we might use bar graphs do display summary information about the receipts or disbursements of different sets of PACs (e.g. Corporate or Labor sponsored PACs, Independent Expenditure Only PACs, etc.) with links that would lead to summaries for single committees or groups of PACs.
Any thoughts on how we might do this?
We're also creating some new summaries for Presidential campaigns. In 2008 we offered summaries of receipts and disbursements for each specific report - e.g. total contributions by state or total operating expenditures by purpose. This year we're building similar summaries for each full campaign, not just for a single report. (These don't really become important until July when we might have the second report from at least some Presidential campaigns.)"
FEC website gets ready for 2012
Federal Election Commission:
