(1)__The identification of each candidate, with which pictures may be used;

(2)__The offices sought;

(3)__The offices currently held by the candidates;

(4)__The party affiliation of the candidates and a brief statement about the party or the candidates' positions, philosophy, goals, accomplishments or biographies;

(5)__Encouragement to vote for the candidates identified; and

(6)__Information about voting, such as voting hours and locations.

If the communication contains language outside the categories of this paragraph, it does not qualify as a party candidate listing.

Sec. 10. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1991, c. 839, §8, is further amended to read:

1. Authorized by candidate. Whenever a person makes an expenditure to finance a communication expressly advocating the election or defeat of that names a clearly identified candidate through broadcasting stations, newspapers, magazines, outdoor advertising facilities, publicly accessible sites on the Internet, direct mails or other similar types of general public political advertising or through flyers, handbills, bumper stickers and other nonperiodical publications, the communication, if authorized by a candidate, a candidate's authorized political committee or their agents, must clearly and conspicuously state that the communication has been so authorized and must clearly state the name and address of the person who made or financed the expenditure for the communication. The following forms of political communication do not require the name and address of the person who made or authorized the expenditure for the communication because the name or address would be so small as to be illegible or infeasible: ashtrays, badges and badge holders, balloons, campaign buttons, clothing, coasters, combs, emery boards, envelopes, erasers, glasses, key rings, letter openers, matchbooks, nail files, noisemakers, paper and plastic cups, pencils, pens, plastic tableware, 12-inch or shorter rulers, swizzle sticks, tickets to fund-raisers and similar items