Party preference must be included in any form of advertising about a candidate seeking election to a partisan office, regardless of who sponsors the ad. Official symbols or logos adopted by the state committee of the party may be used to indicate a candidate's party preference in political advertisements instead of words. Acceptable abbreviations that may be used for party preference are:
Communist: Com
Constitution: CP
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Democrat: D, Dem, Demo
Independent or unaffiliated: Ind, Indep
Libertarian: L, LP, LBT, LBTN
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Progressive, P, PP, Prog
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Republican: R, GOP, Rep (use Rep only if it does not falsely imply the candidate is an incumbent State Representative)
Socialist: Soc
Socialist Workers: Soc Workers, SWP