U.S. Campaign Finance Filing System Offline Days Before Midterm Elections Amid Hacking Report

The Federal Election Commission's (FEC) electronic filing and alert systems have gone offline less than a week before the November 3 general election. A reported hacking incident is under investigation, preventing political committees from submitting campaign finance reports electronically. An FEC spokesperson confirmed the system is offline and IT staff are working to restore service. A Democratic FEC Commissioner clarified that this outage does not affect voter files or registration, which are maintained by the states.