Friends of Sam Chase v. Elections Div.

The Oregon Secretary of State issued a final order imposing a civil penalty of $1,000 against petitioner Friends of Sam Chase, an election campaign committee, for electronically filing a supplemental campaign contribution and expenditure report 76 days after its due date. The secretary’s determination that the report was 76 days late was based on an interpretation of former OAR 165-012-0230(11) (Aug 1, 2005) 1 that required an electronic report to successfully load into the secretary’s data system in order to be considered filed for purposes of meeting the filing deadline. Petitioner seeks…