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Prototype of email alerts whenever campaign finance disclosures come in
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Combining 496 forms should not sum together the same contribution to multiple candidates #71

Open tdooner opened 2 years ago

tdooner commented 2 years ago

For example,

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This represents the combination of two 496 forms, presumably because the 496 form only allows you to say a contribution is in support of a single candidate. So - since this is probably a single expense in support of two candidates, the contributions should also be combined so it does not read "Total Independent Expenditures Made: $3,680" but rather "Total Independent Expenditures Made: $1,840"

tdooner commented 2 years ago

I'm not necessarily sure that this is correct, though. On a later date, it looks like the amount differs:

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