Gregg Prentice, a software developer by trade, was in charge of the Hillsborough County (FL) Republicans' financial records. Only one problem: when he died from COVID on the weekend, no one else knew how to use his software. That's a problem for the GOP group when the FEC deadline for submitting their data is September 20. Source: Florida Bulldog The Hillsborough County Republican Executive Committee has a problem. On Tuesday, it informed the Federal Elections Commission that it may be late with its required monthly financial filing because its member responsible for submitting reports electronically died suddenly on Saturday of COVID-19. The late Gregg Prentice developed software that converted the committee’s QuickBooks data into information usable by the FEC.