DMIS Consulting builds and supports the Financial Filer Management System (FFMS), software Florida county Supervisor of Elections offices use to manage campaign finance reporting.
What FFMS Is
FFMS is built around one goal: increasing public trust in campaign finance disclosures, and in the belief that campaigns and committees are following Florida election law. It does that by automating the routine work behind campaign finance oversight — auditing each transaction against Florida Statute, generating the required correspondence (deadline reminders, fine notices, incomplete-report letters), and keeping a complete, searchable record of every filer interaction in your own office's database. No paper files to track down, no manual line-by-line review.
The FFMS filing matrix: every filer, every reporting period, at a glance. Color indicates status — filed clean, audit issues, late, or fine due.
Why It Matters
For a Supervisor of Elections office, that means fewer fines and FEC referrals over honest filing mistakes, faster resolution when a report needs correction, and an easier transition whenever staff changes — the system holds the institutional knowledge, not just one person's memory. It's not theoretical: the automated audit alone has saved one office more than 9 staff hours a week.
The record also matters when a filer disputes their record. In one case, a candidate with more than $17,000 in outstanding fines was attempting to qualify for a new election and was disputing whether the fines were valid. The office printed the FFMS activity summary and handed it across the desk. The candidate's response: "To whom do I write the check?"
Every filer has a complete record: contacts, conversations, correspondence history, reports, and revocation status — all in one place.
Why DMIS
DMIS grew out of a real problem. In 2017, Miami-Dade's Supervisor of Elections, Christina White, was managing campaign finance disclosure with a degrading Access database that no longer had vendor support. There was no clear path forward — not with off-the-shelf software, and not with the legacy system. The county needed something purpose-built for Florida statute, sustainable, and actually maintained.
Fred built FFMS from the ground up on modern, maintainable .NET architecture — with early mentoring on the system's foundational design from Mitchel Sellers of Iowa Computer Gurus, Inc. The system went live in Miami-Dade in January 2018. Since then, FFMS has managed 4,555 Filers across seven Florida counties — Miami-Dade, Broward, Lee, Leon, Orange, Palm Beach, and Pinellas — processing 37,939 reports and overseeing more than $238 million in campaign finance activity.
If FFMS is a fit for your county, reach out. If you're not sure, Fred will give you an honest assessment based on your data.
Real data from a live county deployment — filer counts by status and committee type, instantly exportable.
Contact
Questions about whether FFMS is right for your county?
- Emailfred@dmispro.com
- Phone(850) 273-8822
Expect a direct conversation grounded in your data, not a sales pitch. Fred will typically ask for a day to review your county's data before that first conversation — so when you talk, there's something concrete on the table. Be ready to discuss your current system, staffing, volume, and timeline.