The deadline for federal campaign committees to disclose third quarter 2009 contributions and expenditures was Thursday, Oct. 15. We’re still waiting for the Senate forms to be posted online (Senators don’t file electronically, so the Federal Election Commission’s army of elves, gnomes and oompa loompas must make image files of all the reports) and it looks like we’ll be waiting a while longer.

This is why we need electronic filing of Senate reports — see here for more details — and why I need stronger lenses.

Cross-posted from Real Time Investigations.