Ever use Pennsylvania's archaic campaign finance website? Due to budget cutbacks the site is getting even worse, according to the Daily News:

The problem: candidates and political action committees [PAC] can file their campaign finance reports -- there are seven reports required by state law due during 2011 -- electronically or on paper.  The Department of State has outsourced the data entry work needed to put some of the paper reports available on-line and uses in-house staff for some of the work.

As a result of the budget cut-backs, which started in September, the posting on-line of PAC reports is slowing down, according to Kevin Murphy, a spokesman for the Department of State.  "However, the department is working on inputting the reports as available resources permit," Murphy added.

Here's why that worries James Browning over at Common Cause: A savvy PAC could realize that filing reports on paper will mean less scrutiny.  Browning says his group is sympathetic about the budget cuts causing the problem.  But he also worries that the Department of State web site doesn't say that some reports are not being posted.