FEC Filing System Back Online After Outage

The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system is back online after going down for nearly two days, The Hill reports. The FEC announced the restoration in a post on X shortly before 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, saying the system was "back online and available to filers." The commission added that work is continuing.

The Hill reports the outage came with little explanation. The cause hasn't been stated, and neither has the work still underway.

This is the system candidates and committees rely on to file their campaign finance reports. When the public can't see how elections are funded, trust takes a hit, and people deserve a plain account of what went wrong and how the FEC plans to keep it from happening again.

“back online and available to filers”Federal Election Commission, via The Hill