Grassroots Tools - Campaign Finance
Election administration duties in the Commonwealth of Kentucky are divided among three
separate agencies: the Office of the Secretary of State, the State
Board of Elections and the Registry of Election Finance.
Regulatory Functions are provided by the Kentucky
Registry of Election Finance. Below is
a description of this agency plus links to their services
through the
Kentucky Secretary of State website.
Registry of Election Finance
(www.kref.ky.gov)
The Kentucky Registry of Election Finance is an
independent 7-Member Board appointed to serve as the regulatory body
for the administration, regulation, and enforcement of Kentucky's
campaign finance laws. The agency receives, compiles, and maintains
Financial Disclosure Reports of elected officials and candidates for
specified offices.
Regulatory functions include educating candidates/committees on
the campaign finance laws, tracking candidate/committee election
finance activities, ensuring compliance with campaign finance
reporting requirements (including the timely filing of campaign
finance reports), providing the means for electronic reporting of
campaign finance date (including providing filer software free of
charge to candidates who file electronically), ensuring compliance
with campaign finance laws with desk reviews and with random and
mandatory audits, investigating complaints, advising candidates on
campaign finance questions, and adjudicating administrative charges
of violations of campaign finance laws. The KREF maintains a
web-based searchable database which provides users with candidate
campaign finance data on search criteria provided by the user.
Kentucky's campaign finance laws apply to ALL candidates for
office, including local and statewide candidates, gubernatorial
slates, judicial, state legislative, city and county and school
board candidates, as well as political issues committees, permanent
committees (PACs) and state and local executive committees.
Learn more about their services:
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