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 1   candidate or the candidate's treasurer files a
 2   statement of organization as required by section 56.5,
 3   or from the date the candidate or the candidate's
 4   designee files an affidavit of candidacy with the
 5   state commissioner of elections, whichever date is
 6   earlier, through the date of the special election for
 7   that office.
 8     Sec. 6.  NEW SECTION.  56.35  ADJUSTMENTS FOR
 9   BENEFITED CANDIDATES AND OPPONENTS.
10     1.  A person or political committee which causes
11   the publication, mass mailing, or broadcast of
12   advocacy information in a restricted campaign shall
13   give notice to the board and to the benefited
14   candidate.  The notice shall be given by certified
15   restricted mail within twenty-four hours after the
16   publication, mailing, or broadcast of the advocacy
17   information and be accompanied by the text of the
18   advocacy information and the amount of the
19   publication, mailing, or broadcasting expenditures.
20     2.  The benefited candidate shall notify the board
21   within seventy-two hours of receipt of notice given
22   pursuant to subsection 1 whether the candidate accepts
23   or disavows the expenditure.  If the candidate accepts
24   the expenditure, the anticipated expenditure shall be
25   credited against the candidate's expenditure limit.
26   If the candidate files a statement of disavowal, the
27   board shall forward a copy of the statement to the
28   candidate's opponent.
29     3.  For the purposes of this section, the board
30   shall disregard the first five hundred dollars of
31   aggregate disavowed expenditures regarding a benefited
32   candidate for the general assembly, the first one
33   thousand dollars of aggregate disavowed expenditures
34   regarding a benefited candidate for a statewide office
35   other than governor, and the first five thousand
36   dollars of aggregate disavowed expenditures regarding
37   a benefited candidate for governor.  If the aggregate
38   disavowed expenditures regarding a benefited candidate
39   exceed the amounts provided in this section, the board
40   shall determine if a reasonable person would or would
41   not draw a fair inference that the material assists
42   the election of the benefited candidate or the defeat
43   of an opposing candidate.  If the board determines
44   that a candidate is benefited, the board shall
45   attribute the disavowed expenditure to the expenditure
46   limits of the benefited candidate and shall do one of
47   the following:  increase the benefited candidate's
48   opponent's expenditure limits by the amount of the
49   disavowed expenditures attributed to the benefited
50   candidate or eliminate the expenditure limit of the

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