Overview

How do we understand the power of political influence in our electoral democracy? “Follow the money”. Robust public oversight of campaign funding is vital to build trust and create transparency in elections.

Sunshine is a complete campaign finance reporting system, allowing total oversight of money in politics in your jurisdiction. Sunshine allows committees to securely register, import transactions, and file reports. It allows your office to securely monitor, manage, and audit these reports. And most importantly, it allows the public a clear view of all the data showing how candidates for office and political committees raise and spend money.

Testimonial - Dan Carlton

Civera has been absolutely fantastic. Every component has exceeded our expectations. We gave them hardly any instructions on the exempt status or the termination features, and they just came through with all of the different catches or errors that people could make, and just really did a bang-up job. I’m super proud of them and super excited to have people poke around on the tool.

Dan Carlton Jr, Administrator
Wisconsin Ethics Commission

Platform Views

Public-facing view

Sunshine enables the public to easily see who is contributing to political campaigns, how much money candidates are raising, and how they are spending money.

Candidate or committee member view

Sunshine makes it easy for committees to register and report campaign finance transactions, from contributions to expenditures. The tool ensures committees remain compliant with automatic reminders and notifications to ensure all transactions conform to the current rules, and that they never miss a reporting deadline.

Staff view

Sunshine makes administering campaign finance reporting requirements seamless for auditors. The system ensures staff can easily review reports, identify discrepancies, and send notifications to filers.

The Result

We’ve built one of the most easy-to-use and powerful campaign finance public portals in the nation.

Features

Sunshine outperforms most statewide systems.

Feature Existing Systems Campaign Finance App
Search Siloed search, separate pages for each entity: candidates, PACs, donors, etc. Full, flexible statewide unified search, keeps user on one page. Collapsible panels for each entity.
Clickable Entities Static, plain text entities can’t be clicked to explore more information. Clickable entities which will instantly search by that entity.
Results Style Report-centric search results which require click-through to see the transactions therein. Transaction- and report-centric search results that the user can toggle. Transactions easily click through to their parent report. Reports can be expanded with a click to show their child transactions.
Data and Statistics Limited ability to download data. Raw CSV files of your exact search results, including all transactions and links to all reports.
Page Sharing Pages don’t have shareable URL links. Every search result creates a shareable permalink URL.
Summary and Data Viz No “big picture” summary, simple table output. Usually primitive or absent data visualizations. Combined “big picture” summary visualizations at the top followed by granular transaction-level data.
Update Cycle New data may take days or weeks to show up on the site Live updates every hour. Can show freshest “draft transactions” with disclaimer before they are officially filed.

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