Sunlight Foundation’s New “Influence Explorer”

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The Sunlight Foundation’s Influence Explorer now offers a new way to review and receive federal campaign finance data for candidates, PACs and outside spending groups. The “Realtime Federal Campaign Finance” section—Realtime for short—of Influence Explorer takes official Federal Election Commission (FEC) data for the current election cycle and presents it in a more user-friendly format.

The Realtime tool, which is actually an amped-up version of Sunlight’s “Follow the Unlimited Money,” automatically gathers FEC data. It presents spending by and for politicians, parties, PACs and Super PACs.

This site also allows users to receive customized email alerts when a particular committee submits a new electronic filing to the FEC.

The new Realtime section is Sunlight’s first step in providing more immediate data offerings on Influence Explorer. Other tools that were developed for the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group will be rolled into this site in the coming months.

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