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The separately supplied in-kind file is verified against the combined contribution export and included only once.","Amended markers, signed negative adjustments, and reported zero amounts are preserved. The amendment marker does not mean a record should be discarded.","The account directory uses public committee IDs, not name-only matches or the portal's separate internal record IDs.","The source exports contain some embedded newlines. Strict record boundaries and field-count checks resolved every record in this snapshot; malformed future rows must stop a refresh."],"limitations":["This release is not all historical Alabama political spending, every federal FEC disclosure, or an independently verified count of every registered committee.","Some source rows aggregate unitemized transactions. A row count is not necessarily a count of individual donors or payments.","Independent-advertising candidate targets and support-or-oppose classifications are not supplied in these exports. No zero-dollar claim is made for those missing views.","Do not subtract expenses from contributions to infer cash on hand. 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