to the office at least 72 hours in advance of the final preparation of the communication. (C) Self-defense communications A response by the organization to a public or publicly-reported statement by a candidate or candidates that either (i) attacks the organization itself, or (ii) comments upon a specific public policy position that the organization has taken publicly in furtherance of its exempt purpose within the prior year, or (iii) results in press inquiries to the organization that were not solicited subsequent to the candidate’s statement by the organization. The response by the organization must be educational, limited topically to addressing the candidate's statement, and as to (i) or (ii), disseminated in a manner commensurate in medium and scale, and proximate in time, to the publicity of the candidate's statement, and as to (iii), limited to dissemination to the requesting press organization. (D) Personal, oral remarks at official meetings Oral remarks made by anyone other than a candidate who is present in person at an official meeting of an organization held in a single room or location, so long as— (i) no announcement of the meeting refers to any candidate, party, election, or voting, and (ii) a disclaimer is made to those in attendance, stating that remarks are the speaker’s personal opinion and are not made on behalf of the organization. This exception covers only oral remarks made by and to persons in attendance, and not any other form of communication or redistribution of those remarks, whether written, electronic, recorded, broadcast, or otherwise transmitted. (c) Definitions For purposes of this section— (1) Candidate The term candidate means a person who offers himself or herself for election to public office or whose election the person conducting the activity or making the expenditure in question expressly proposes, supports, or opposes. (2) Election The term election means a process culminating in a vote by the public to determine whether a candidate will serve in a public office,