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election or defeat of 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 | | determined by the commission to be too small and unnecessary for | | the disclosures required by this section. |
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| | | Sec. 11. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§2-A is enacted to read: |
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| | | 2-A.__Communication.__If a communication that names or depicts | | a clearly identified candidate is disseminated during the 21 days | | before an election through the media described in subsection 1, | | the communication must state the name and address of the person | | who made or financed the communication and a statement that the | | communication was or was not authorized by the candidate. |
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| | | Sec. 12. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§5 is enacted to read: |
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| | | 5.__Automated telephone calls.__Automated telephone calls that | | name a clearly identified candidate must clearly state the name | | of the person who made or financed the expenditure for the | | communication, except for automated telephone calls paid for by | | the candidate that use the candidate's voice in the telephone | | call. |
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| | | Sec. 13. 21-A MRSA §1017, sub-§2, ¶D, as amended by PL 2003, c. 628, | | Pt. B, §1, is further amended to read: |
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| | | D. Contributions aggregating $1,000 or more from any one | | contributor or single expenditures of $1,000 or more, made after | | the 12th day before the election, and more than 24 hours before 5 | | p.m. on the day of the election, must be reported within 24 hours | | of those contributions or |
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