| Request that the Board waive a $800 campaign finance late fee assessed against Sandra LeBlanc Holloway, a candidate for BESE, District 3, Ascension Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose Special campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late. |
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Joseph P. Kolwe, report preparer for Sandra Holloway, requests a waiver and states the following:
The contribution in question was not received on 9/23/19, but was in fact received on 9/26/19. While the committee had earlier received electronic receipt of funds for the 10/12/19 election cycle, the $1,500 in question was the first electronically received donation received during the 48-hour reporting period. The late reporting was caused because the electronic receipt was not noticed as even having been received until two additional donation items, both over the $1,000 reporting requirement, received in the more traditional methods, by mail or hand delivered to the committee. The committee has made adjustments to its reporting procedures to mitigate the chances of electronic receipt of donations from happening again.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: SPECIAL
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $800
REPORTS DUE: September 26, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 4, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $1,500 Contribution
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.
18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Kathleen Allen |
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