Q&A
Update on the progress of 2021 election cycle audits
2:26:43
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3 min
Council Member Restler inquires about the progress of audits for the 2021 election cycle, and Paul Seamus Ryan provides an update on the status of draft and final audits.
- Ryan reports that 97% of candidates who will receive a draft audit have already received it
- 153 final audits have been published so far
- Restler calculates that a majority of audits have not been completed yet
- The discussion highlights the need for expediting the audit process
Lincoln Restler
2:26:43
And then I do just want to close out by asking some audit questions.
2:26:49
I appreciate very much the plan moving forward for how we will ensure that audits are completed that most audits are completed in a timely fashion.
2:27:03
I did just wanna check on how we're doing so far with the 2021 cycle.
2:27:08
Can you share with us of the I believe it was 308 candidates that ran in 2021,
Paul Seamus Ryan
2:27:17
for whom the CFP is completing audits of those campaign committees, how many have been completed?
2:27:24
How many are outstanding?
2:27:27
Let me see.
2:27:28
The total number of chem so I have a total number of draft audits from 2021, and the total number of campaigns getting a draft audit is 3 40, and the total number of draft audits that have gone out, 329.
2:27:41
So 97% of the candidates who will be receiving a draft audit have received it already.
2:27:49
Do you have another data point to in that did I miss anything?
2:27:52
What I'm really asking is how many are completed?
2:27:55
Okay.
2:27:56
Final audits published, 153
Lincoln Restler
2:28:01
have been published so far.
2:28:02
So am I right in my, in the math, is that we're we have, a 140 187 that have not been completed?
Paul Seamus Ryan
2:28:19
I would wanna double let's see.
2:28:21
153.
2:28:22
I'm seeing a number in this chart in my prep materials.
2:28:28
For the number of outstanding fine law, that's 273.
2:28:33
So if 273 plus and the some campaigns don't get draft audits also, so which makes the math a little bit difficult.
2:28:41
Okay.
2:28:41
So, for example, if sometimes a campaign goes confirming all of this data, is that, you know, we have issued 329, 340 draft audits, and the number of final, audits so far is 153.
2:29:05
So 329 minus 153 would be, presumably, the number you're looking for.
Lincoln Restler
2:29:16
Okay.
2:29:16
That's 176, so in that range.
2:29:19
So under any circumstances, a majority of the audits have not been completed.
2:29:27
Recognizing that we have a plan for the future, is there additional resources or support that the CFB or is there a plan for how we're going to expeditiously complete these outstanding audits?
2:29:44
Yeah.
Paul Seamus Ryan
2:29:44
There's, you know, a few facets to the plan.
