Louisiana 2nd district runoff election reporting
The runoff election to fill the U.S. House seat in Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District will be held on December 9, 2006. The committees involved in the General Runoff election will be required to file Pre-Runoff and Post-Runoff reports. Note that 48-hour notices are required of authorized committees that receive contributions of $1,000 or more for the General Runoff between November 20 and December 6. Political committees must file 24-hour notices of independent expenditures that aggregate at or above $1,000 between November 20 and December 7. This requirement is in addition to that of filing 48-hour notices of independent expenditures that aggregate $10,000 or more at other times during a calendar year. Additionally, the 60-day electioneering communications time period for the General Runoff runs from October 10 through December 9.¹
¹ Individuals and other groups not registered with the FEC who make electioneering communications costing more than $10,000 in the aggregate in the calendar year must disclose this activity to the Commission within 24 hours of the distribution of the communication. See 11 CFR 100.29 and 104.20.
² This date indicates the end of a reporting period. A reporting period always begins the day after the closing date of the last report filed. If the committee is new and has not previously filed a report, the first report must cover all activity that occurred before the committee registered.
³ Reports filed electronically must be received and verified by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the filing date. A committee required to file electronically that instead files on paper reporting forms will be considered a nonfiler. Reports filed on paper and sent by registered or certified mail must be postmarked by the mailing date above (please note that a “certificate of mailing” from the U.S. Postal Service is not sufficient to prove that a report is timely filed). If using overnight mail, the delivery service must receive the report by the mailing date. “Overnight mail” includes Priority or Express Mail having a delivery confirmation, or an overnight delivery service with which the report is scheduled for delivery the next business day and is recorded in the service’s on-line tracking system. Reports sent by other means must be received by the Commission’s close of business on the filing date.