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Design Documents

• Forms Inventory
• Data Model -- coming soon
• User Stories -- coming soon

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Problem Statement

Develop an application that:

• automates campaign filings for local, non-judicial races in Texas (e.g. Austin Mayor and City Council seats)
• conforms to state requirements
• conforms to city requirements, both process requirements from City Clerk Office and technical requirements from Communications and Technology Management (CTM)
• provides public functions to support transparency
• based on robust and widely supported open source framework and libraries
• community developed and released as open source

Outstanding Items

The following items need work. Can you help?

• Research: What filings need to be made during a campaign?
• Research: What are the provisions/process for electronic filing?
• Design Document: Data Model
• Design Document: User Stories

Resources

• Office of the City Clerk, City of Austin: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/city-clerk

  • Elections Department: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/elections
  • Campaign Treasurer Appointments: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/campaign-treasurer-forms
  • Campaign Finance Reports: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/campaign-finance-reports

• Texas Ethics Commission: http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/index.html

  • Local Filers and Filing Authorities: http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/main/local.htm
  • Local Non-Judicial Candidate/Officeholder Forms & Instructions: http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/filinginfo/localcohfrm.htm