February 4, 2015

Maureen Benitz
Senior Campaign Finance Analyst
Reports Analysis Division

This letter responds to your request for additional information, dated January 25, 2015, regarding differences in reported totals between the PAC?s original October Quarterly Report and the amended Report.

The decrease in the reported receipts total that you cited was attributable to Mayday PAC receiving incorrect contribution dates and decimal information from its online-contribution processor.  Upon noticing the data issue, the PAC proactively filed an amendment to correct the original October Quarterly Report on 12/4/2014.  Because this correction caused some contributions to shift from the October Report?s covered time period over to the Pre-Primary Report, it caused a difference in the receipt total listed on the original October Report as compared to the amended October Report. (The difference in the October Reports? total receipts that you noted was just -$109,000 because roughly half of the $217,000 in contributions shifted over to the Pre-Primary Report was offset by the decimal correction, which increased the amounts listed for some contributions.)  Mayday?s actual cash-on-hand and receipts did not change during this time.

The increase in the reported expenditures total that you cited resulted from an issue that was separate and unrelated with the above-mentioned correction of the contribution dates. The PAC received an RFAI on 12/01/2014 requesting further clarification regarding information related to certain independent expenditures. These communications were aired in one reporting period, October Quarterly Report (08/21/2014 - 09/30/2014), but were paid for in advance and duly reported in a previous reporting period (Pre Primary Report: 07/01/2014 - 08/20/2014). The October Quarterly Report was amended on 01/05/2014 to reflect all memoed disbursements regarding the payments on Schedule D. Due to a glitch in the PAC?s report-filing software, though, the memoed items caused a double-counting of these previously reported disbursements.  The October Quarterly Report was amended again on 01/28/2014 to correct the memoed items and total amount of disbursements during the period. 

Respectfully submitted,
Mark McKinnon
Treasurer
Mayday PAC