Registering a Candidate Committee:
- Once logged into ORESTAR, navigate to your
Private Workshop
- In the left navigation pane, select
Submit New Filing
- Select
Candidate Committee
- Select your
role
- Warning! You will need to start over completely if you select the incorrect role at this stage.
- Select
Next
- Enter the applicable information into the various tabs
- Select
Submit Filing
- Read the liability
attestation
- Select
File
Note: If the candidate and treasurer are not the same person, the other person will need to obtain access to the filing to continue.
Helpful Tips:
- The committee’s address must not be a PO box
- If you don’t already have a bank account set up, enter the information you intend to open the account with. If the information changes, let us know within 5 days by amending your filing.
- Generally, candidate committees do not have Directors
- Generally, the Multiple Directors tab is blank
- Generally, the Other Election Activity tab is blank
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Use pages 75-77 of the Campaign Finance Manual as a guide for filling out the fields
Certificate of Limited Contributions and Expenditures:
Will your committee spend less than $5,000 in contributions or expenditures in this calendar year? If yes, you may be exempt from filing detailed transactions. See page 14 of
the Campaign Finance Manual.
Important Information:
This is
not your application to run for office! Learn more about that process on our
Run for Public Office page.
This is
not your voters’ pamphlet submission! Learn more about that process on our Voters’ Pamphlet information page.
Learning Opportunities:
Want to learn more about campaign finance requirements and other elections processes? See our
Learning Opportunities page to find out about upcoming offerings.
Get Help:
Contact us by email