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This is reported contributor geography, not a donor's ultimate source of funds. No addresses or exact locations are used.","spending_chart_title":"Who received reported campaign expenses?","chart_notes":{"contribution_source_types":"Source-reported contributor types for Monetary rows only. Pledges, loans, in-kind and other funds have separate ledgers.","contributor_states":"Reported contributor states for Monetary rows only. Unmapped postal codes remain in the exact table.","spending_categories":"Source-reported recipient types for Campaign Expense rows, not inferred spending purposes. An expense can be an unpaid obligation; this is not a cash-paid total."},"fourth_chart":{"id":"independent-targets","title":"What did independent spending support or oppose?","note":"Source-assigned candidate and ballot-measure allocations, including signed adjustments. These are target allocations, not additional payments. 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Those samples include amended records and signed corrections; they do not establish reconciliation of every report.","Every original export row is retained once using its archive, record ID and original data-row ordinal. Repeated expenditure IDs can represent separate target allocations or funding-source disclosures.","The 2,397 received in-kind rows and their expense-side mirrors each sum to $1,542,259.80. They are shown separately, never added as new money.","Five independent-spending funding-source rows have no published amount. Their totals remain unavailable, not $0.","Signed corrections, source zero amounts and amendment markers remain intact. Source names are not merged across different organization IDs."],"limitations":["This release is not every historical Nebraska filing, every registered account, all federal FEC records, or a complete election-cycle cash account.","Source rows can aggregate activity. A row count is not a unique donor or payment count. 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It does not include every original unsplit payment amount, so the allocation sum is not presented as a verified unique-spending total.","No cash balance or unique statewide spending total is calculated from these overlapping source types."],"source_links":[{"label":"Official Nebraska download catalog and snapshot date","url":"https://nadc-e.nebraska.gov/PublicSite/DataDownload.aspx"},{"label":"2026 contribution and loan archive","url":"https://nadc-e.nebraska.gov/PublicSite/Docs/BulkDataDownloads/2026_ContributionLoanExtract.csv.zip"},{"label":"2026 expenditure archive","url":"https://nadc-e.nebraska.gov/PublicSite/Docs/BulkDataDownloads/2026_ExpenditureExtract.csv.zip"},{"label":"Official contribution field definitions","url":"https://nadc-e.nebraska.gov/PublicSite/Resources/PublicDocuments/NEContributionsFileLayout.pdf"},{"label":"Official expenditure field definitions","url":"https://nadc-e.nebraska.gov/PublicSite/Resources/PublicDocuments/NEExpendituresFileLayout.pdf"},{"label":"Official 2026 candidate reporting brochure","url":"https://nadc.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/2026%20Candidate%20Brochure.pdf"},{"label":"Official reporting guide: allocations, third-party detail and unpaid bills","url":"https://nadc.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/Campaign%20Statements%20and%20Reports%20STEP-BY-STEP%20e-file%20GUIDE%20_0.pdf"}],"transaction_count":48186,"ledger_totals":[{"ledger":"monetary_contributions","label":"Monetary contributions","rows":26064,"reported_rows":26064,"amount":"41215064.51","note":"Source Monetary rows only. 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