Getting Started: Organize with OCPF

Please choose the candidate and committee type to get step-by-step instructions on how to organize with OCPF.

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Statewide Offices: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor
Governor's Council: 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th / 5th / 6th / 7th / 8th District
House & Senate: A candidate for the General Court is seeking a seat in the State House or State Senate
County and District Offices: County Clerks of Court, Commissioners & Treasurers; Registers of Deeds & Probate; District Attorneys; Sheriffs and Suffolk County Clerks of Superior & Supreme Judicial Courts; Governor's Council.
Candidates for mayor in all cities in MA file their campaign finance reports with OCPF.
City Councilor in Boston, Brockton, Cambridge, Fall River, Framingham, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, New Bedford, Newton, Quincy, Somerville, Springfield, Waltham and Worcester.
Such offices include select board and school committee, as well as city council in cities with populations of less than 65,000.
  • Step 1
    Download and complete a Statement of Organization Form CPF M 101.
  • Step 2
    Bring the completed CPF M 101 form to your local election official.
  • Step 3
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 4
    Prepare and file your reports with your local election official. Candidate Checklist. Click here to register to use OCPF’s software, Reporter 7, to create, print and file campaign finance reports.
A political action committee, or “PAC”, is a political committee that is organized to support or oppose a candidate or a slate of candidates who file with OCPF. Therefore, a PAC could be organized to support or oppose a particular candidate. It could also be organized to support or oppose a variety of candidates of a particular party or who support a particular cause. A PAC is separate from a candidate’s committee.
A Ballot Question Committee is a person or group of people who raise or spend money to support or oppose a question put to voters at a state election.
  • Step 1
    Click here to organize your committee with OCPF.
  • Step 2
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 3
    Complete Online Treasurer Training.
  • Step 4
    Start using OCPF Reporter to prepare and file your campaign finance reports.
An IEPAC is a political action committee that receives contributions to make independent expenditures, and only makes independent expenditures.
  • Step 1
    Click here to organize your committee with OCPF.
  • Step 2
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 3
    Complete Online Treasurer Training.
  • Step 4
    Start using OCPF Reporter to prepare and file your campaign finance reports.
There are three types of funds: An Inauguration Fund, A Recount Fund, and A Legal Defense Fund.
  • Step 1
    Appoint a contact person for your segregated fund account.
  • Step 2
    Download and complete a Statement of Organization for your fund:
    Form CPF 101 SFA, CPF M 101 SFA
  • Step 3
    Email, fax or bring in the completed CPF 101 SFA form to OCPF.
  • Step 4
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 5
    Start using OCPF Reporter to prepare and file your campaign finance reports.
There are three types of independent spending reports: Independent Expenditures, Electioneering Communications(EC), Ballot Question Spending,
  • Step 1
    Click here to register with OCPF.
  • Step 2
    Start using OCPF Reporter to prepare and file an Independent Spending Report.
Committees that raise or spend money to support or oppose a question put to voters in a municipal election
  • Step 1
    Download and complete a Statement of Organization Form CPF M 101 BQ.
  • Step 2
    Appoint a Chair and a Treasurer for your committee.
  • Step 3
    Bring the completed CPF M 101 BQ form to your local election official.
  • Step 4
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 5
    Prepare and file your reports with your local election official.
M.G.L. Chapter 52 regulates the process by which local political party committees are formed. Ward and town committee members of each party are elected at the presidential primary by those who have voted in that particular party. The members of the various ward committees of a political party in a city constitute the city committee.
  • Step 1
    Download and complete a Statement of Organization Form CPF 101 WTC.
  • Step 2
    Appoint a Chair and a Treasurer for your committee.
  • Step 3
    Bring the completed CPF 101 WTC form to your local election official.
  • Step 4
    Email or fax the copies of the completed CPF 101 WTC form to OCPF.
  • Step 5
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 6
    Complete Online Treasurer Training.
  • Step 7
    Start using OCPF Reporter to prepare and file your campaign finance reports.
Committees that raise and spend money to support or oppose one or more city or town candidates who do not file with OCPF, based upon stated principles or interests.
  • Step 1
    Download and complete a Statement of Organization Form CPF M 101 PC.
  • Step 2
    Appoint a Chair and a Treasurer for your committee.
  • Step 3
    Bring the completed CPF M 101 PC form to your local election official.
  • Step 4
    Set up your Bank Account.
  • Step 5
    Prepare and file your reports with your local election official.