Welcome to OCPF's Filer Organization System!
You can use this system to organize the following committees with OCPF:
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Statewide, County, and District Office
- Statewide Office
- Governor's Council
- County Clerks of Court, Commissioners & Treasurers
- Registers of Deeds & Probate
- District Attorneys
- Sheriffs and Suffolk County Clerks of Superior & Supreme Judicial Courts
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Mayor
Candidates for mayor in all cities in Commonwealth of Massachusetts file their campaign finance reports with OCPF.
Below is the list of the cities:Agawam Amesbury Attleboro Beverly Boston Braintree Brockton Cambridge Chicopee Easthampton Everett Fall River Fitchburg Framingham Gardner Gloucester Greenfield Haverhill Holyoke Lawrence Leominster Lowell Lynn Malden Marlboro Medford Melrose Methuen Newburyport New Bedford Newton North Adams Northampton Peabody Pittsfield Quincy Revere Salem Somerville Springfield Taunton Waltham West Springfield Westfield Weymouth Woburn Worcester -
State Political Action Committees (PACs)
A political action committee, or “PAC”, is a political committee that is organized to support or oppose a candidate or a slate of candidates. Therefore, a PAC could be organized to support or oppose a particular candidate. It could also be organized to support or oppose a variety of candidates of a particular party or who support a particular cause. A PAC is separate from a candidate’s committee.
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Independent Expenditure Political Action Committees (IEPACs)
An IEPAC is a political action committee that receives contributions to make independent expenditures, and only makes independent expenditures. Unlike other PACs, independent expenditure PACs may receive contributions from individuals without limit, and from corporations and other entities that are otherwise prohibited from contributing to PACs pursuant to M.G.L.C.55, Section 8.
Independent expenditure PACs are subject to all other requirements that apply to other PACs, including recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
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House and Senate
Seats in the State Senate and State House (General Court).
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City Councilor (population over 65000)
City Councilor in Boston, Brockton, Cambridge, Fall River, Framingham, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, New Bedford, Newton, Quincy, Somerville, Springfield, Waltham and Worcester.
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State Ballot Question Committee
A Ballot Question Committee is a person or group of people who raise or spend money to support or oppose a question put to voters at a state election.
- If the question appears on a statewide ballot, the committee must organize with OCPF and file regular Campaign Finance Reports with this office.
- If the question the committee was formed to support or oppose is put to voters in a municipal election, the committee must organize with their local election official: the city or town clerk or election commission.
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Local Municipal Filers
Local municipal filers may register for access to Reporter 7 to complete, print, sign and file reports with local election officials (See the link in the blue section below or click here).
Local municipal filers include all town candidates, and city candidates not running for mayor, or city council in cities with populations of 65,000 or less.
City candidates who organize and file reports with OCPF include ALL mayors as well as city councilors from cities that have over 65,000 residents. These candidates may use this system to organize with OCPF.
All other city candidates and ALL candidates for town office file reports with their local election official. These candidates must file a M101 organizational form with their municipal election official. These candidates can use OCPF's reporting software, Reporter 7, to create and print campaign finance reports to file with their local election official(s), they can register to use it here.
Call OCPF Main Line 617-979-8300 for further assistance
