The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to begin requiring cable television, satellite and radio stations to begin uploading information about political advertising to an online database.

To date, the stations have been allowed to maintain physical copies of the required records at their headquarters, an allowance the commission said was antiquated. “This kind of requirement may have made sense in the ‘Mad Men’ era, but it makes no sense in the digital age,” Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said.