Maine Regulations § 270-3-3 CERTIFICATION OF PARTICIPATING CANDIDATES

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1. Request for Certification . A participating candidate may submit a completed request for certification to the Commission at any time during the qualifying period but not later than 5:00 p.m. on the last day of the relevant qualifying period. The Commission may develop written procedures consistent with this section for candidates to submit qualifying contributions and related materials to facilitate the efficient payment of initial public campaign funding. The request will be deemed complete and considered for certification only when the candidate has submitted to the Commission:

A. the qualifying contributions attached to the corresponding original receipt and acknowledgement forms with confirmation of the contributors' voter registration and the receipt and acknowledgement forms for any qualifying contributions collected on the Commission's online qualifying contribution service;

B. a list of all individuals making qualifying contributions and their town or city of residence, in a format specified by the Commission sorted alphabetically by the contributor's last name;

C. [Repealed.]

D. a seed money report of contributions, expenditures, and obligations made or incurred after becoming a candidate, including a report of any unspent seed money; and

E. a signed request for certification on a form provided by the Commission which contains an affirmation by the candidate that he or she has complied with all seed money and qualifying contribution requirements, has established a separate federally-insured bank account for campaign purposes and, if applicable, that any person who circulated receipt and acknowledgement forms and collected qualifying contributions acted with the candidate's knowledge and consent, and any other information relevant to the certification process.

F. A candidate may request an extension of time to comply with paragraph D. The Commission staff shall grant all reasonable requests or state in writing the reasons for denying the request. The Commission and the Commission staff may not grant an extension of time to comply with paragraphs A, B and E.

2. Order of Review . The Commission will review candidate requests for certification in the order in which they are received, except that it will give priority to those candidates who are in a contested primary election.

3. Unspent Seed Money . In order to distribute funds expeditiously, the Commission will deduct from the initial distribution from the Fund to a certified candidate an amount equal to the amount of unspent seed money reported by that candidate.

4. Certification . The Commission will certify a candidate as a Maine Clean Election Act candidate upon the participating candidate's satisfaction of the requirements of the Act and this chapter.

5. Appeals . Any appeals challenging a certification decision by the Commission must be in accordance with the Act [§ 1125 (14) ] .

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