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Pre-election source corrections.
- Current officeholders: CA-14 (W000832) and GA-13 (B001328) are occupied; FL-20 and TX-23 remain vacant. Current-office labels are reconciled against the House Clerk and Senate roster.
- Independent expenditures: the $9 billion and $8 billion source rows naming H6FL11274 are retained with anomaly flags and excluded from current spending totals. The same plausibility checks apply to all connected rows.
- Duplicate finance: reviewed Calabrese filings S6ME00316/S6ME00324 and Volpe filings S6OH00346/S6OH00353 preserve their original IDs. Aggregate money uses principal committee and cycle; conflicting summaries are excluded pending review.
- Los Angeles measures: all eight questions and guide sections were checked against the final City Clerk voter information pamphlet. The superseded TE/PRK text warnings have been retired.
Source corrections are separate from incoming correction-form submissions. No submitted profile correction has been approved through that workflow yet. Remaining coverage and source-quality limits stay visible.