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Late Independent Expenditure Report Who Uses Form 496: · File with the filing officer(s) who would receive campaign statemenls if you were a committee Any committee that makes independent primarily formed to support or oppose the expenditures totaling $1,000 or more to support or candidate or measure. oppose a single candidate or a single ballot measure during the 16 days immediately pdor to Method of Delivery: the election in which Ih, can~lidate or measure is being voled on (a 'late independent expenditure'). File by facsimile transmission (fax), guaranteed overnight delivery, or personal delivery. "Independent Expenditure" Means: Fast' Facts: An "independent expenditure' is an expenditure made in connection with a communication (e.g., a billboard, advertisement, mailing) that exlxessly · A separate lorm must be used lot each advocates Ihe nomination, election, or defeat of a candidate or measure supported or opposed. clearly identified candidate, or the qualification, (Example: A committee makes an passage, or defeat of a clearly identified measure, independent expenditure by running an or taken as a whole and in context, unambiguously advertisement opposing two candidates. The urges a particular result in an election bul which is ad costs $4,000 and features the candidates nol made to-or at the behest of--Ihe affected equally. The committee must file a separate candidal,, or committee. Form 496 for each candidate and disclose $2,000 in Ih, amount column for each Filing [ equirements: candidate'.) · ' Information reported on Form 49~:~ must be · File t ~ithin 24 hours of making the reported again on lhe next regular campaign indel endent expenditure(s) and each time statemenl liled. In addition, a Supplemental $1,0~ ~0 or more is spent to support or oppose a Independent Expendilure Report (Form 465) singl; candidate or measure during the 16 musl be filed. Refer to the Infom~ation Manual days immediately prior Io Ih, election in which on Campaign Disclosure Provisk,ns of the the c.mdidate or measure is being voted on. Political Reform Act for instructio,'~s. FPPCForm '~ ~98) For TechnlcMAsslstance: 91! ~2; ~ h ~.a~)ai~nVc ,.~,,.