Nassau County Board Of Elections

Campaign Finance

NY State Election Law requires candidates and their political committees to file Financial Disclosure Statements with the appropriate Board of Elections.

The New York State Board of Elections receives all filings of state parties and all political committees supporting candidates for offices not contained wholly within a single county. In addition, all State Senate and Assembly candidates are required to file their disclosure with the State Board even if it is solely contained within a single county. The state requires these filings in an electronic format created by software available on their web site. Information on how to set up those campaign committees, forms and state software or to see information about their filings go to: www.elections.state.ny.us/finance/campaign_finance.htm

The Nassau County Board of Elections receives all filings of party, county, town and legislative district committees and all political committees supporting candidates for offices contained wholly within Nassau County or parts thereof: county wide, city, towns and county legislature. Although these filings are required to be paper filings, the state software can be used to print the schedules within the filings as long as an original cover, status and summary pages are attached to those schedules. Information on how to set up those campaign committees can be obtained by calling (516) 571-2411, sending us an email at ncboe@nassaucounty.gov or visiting us at 400 County Seat Drive in Mineola. Those filings are open to public inspection Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM at the Board of Elections located at 400 County Seat Drive.

Each candidate or political committee is required to file at least two times a year. In a year in which the candidate is running at least three additional filings are required and if the candidate is in a primary three more filings are required.

IRS REQUIREMENTS:

For all campaign committees there may be some IRS requirements.

They that can be found at: http://www.irs.gov/charities/political/index.html
FILING FORMS and HANDBOOK: See Related Documents
Also see Article 14 of the Election Law and Subtitle V of Title 9 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York.www.elections.state.ny.us/law/law.htm
Federal Campaign Committees (i.e. President, US Senate and Congress) you can find information at: www.fec.gov/