Word: limited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to rules posted on the EC Web site, spending more than $100 should immediately result in disqualification from the race. The only way a candidate can exonerate him or herself after exceeding the limit is if it was exceeded by the payment of penalty fines imposed...
...almost 24 hours after the election, four EC members said that Driskell and Burton had exceeded the spending limit...
...members say they were unaware of the actual wording of the rules. At first they said the campaign was allowed to return enough materials to bring them back under the $100 limit...
...rules are pretty clear that two of the expellable offenses are overspending the campaign limit and any ad-boardable offense," said current council president Noah Z. Seton...
Despite his previous claims, he said that Driskell and Burton were not over the spending limit. Rather, he said, all the EC members had been confused after a long and stressful night of tabulating election results...