Election officials move to open up the paper-obessed Senate through crowd-sourcing, algorithms

Rep. Bruce Braley, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Iowa, filed a 26,000-page campaign finance report. The U.S. Senate's long resistance to filing campaign finance reports on anything but paper occasionally turns into a hot political topic: At the moment, for example, Republicans are complaining that Democrats are intentionally swamping the system by submitting minutely-detailed reports to the Federal Election Commission.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/24/campaign-finance-officials-aim-to-cure-the-paper-obsessed-senate-through-crowd-sourcing-algorithms/