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  "slug": "1999-januaryfebruary-cfic-revamped",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1999-januaryfebruary-cfic-revamped.html",
  "year": 1999,
  "month": "January/February",
  "monthNum": 1,
  "headline": "CFIC revamped",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "Matt Jacob",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "NICAR",
  "summary": "A guide to state and federal campaign finance databases that allow journalists and the public to search and analyze political contributions and expenditures across multiple jurisdictions including New York, Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida, and federal elections.",
  "keywords": [
    "campaign",
    "finance",
    "database"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Government & Politics",
    "Data & Databases"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "World Wide Web"
  ],
  "full_text": "New York State Campaign Finance Consortium (http://www.timesunion.com/capitol/contributions)\n\nNewsday, The New York Times, Associated Press and the Albany Times Union joined together to build a statewide database. The Albany Times Union has put the data in a searchable database on this site.\n\nVirginia Public Access Project (http://www.crp.org/vpap)\n\nThe VPAP is a non-partisan, non-profit group that demonstrates how information technology can improve public awareness of money's role in Virginia politics. The Center for Responsive Politics helped make the data searchable.\n\nWisconsin Democracy Campaign (http://wisdc.org)\n\nFrom this site journalists can search gubernatorial contributions and expenditures and view legislative candidate contributions and expenditures to senate and house candidates.\n\nFlorida Division of Elections Campaign Finance Database (http://election.dos.state.fl.us/campfin/contrib.htm)\nCampaign finance contribution data is searchable online and downloadable in a file of tab-separated columns suitable for importing into most spreadsheets or databases.\n\nFederal sites\n\nCenter for Responsive Politics (http://www.crp.org)\nReports describing candidates' sources of funds broken down by industry, metro area and ZIP code. This site also provides in-state and out-of-state comparisons. The CRP site also hosts a number of online engines for searching individual state campaign finance data.\n\nFEC Info (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo)\nUp-to-date FEC filings are searchable from this site, an excellent alternative for most users to downloading FEC files.\n\nMatt Jacob can be reached by e-mail at matt@nicar.org",
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