Why Obama rejected public financing (Updated)
This has been burning up the blogosphere for the past couple of days. Turns out Obama has turned off address verification on his donation system. That, coupled with the all of the illegitimate names that have been found and the foreign donations, I would say he’s stealing the campaign. It’s been reported that about half of his $600M dollars have been of the less-than-$200-not-required-to-be-reported kind.
You think that, during the primaries, he realized he could get away with this garbage and THAT’S why he decided to forego public financing?
Update: It looks like Obama’s campaign has been reading the blogs and has fixed the hole. Also, the RNC has updated their FEC complaint filed earlier in the month. Follow the first link in this post for the details.
Update II: One reader at National Review Online wonders how much Obama makes on the “float,” since the campaign insists that they go through the offerings AFTER they are made to refund any fraudulent donations.
Update III: Looks like the epidemic is hitting home. Rick Noriega, who is challenging John Cornyn for his Senate seat in Texas, has a website that also accepts fraudulent donations, while Cornyn’s site does not.
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Obama Campaign Finance Fraud
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October 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Obama: It takes real work to turn fraud controls off
I operate a business where we are responsible for the online credit card processing and fraud security for thousands of online merchants accepting card payments over the internet.
I can tell you unequivocally, that every well-designed commercial online payment system is going to have the 3/4 digit code check AND the ZIP check turned ON by default.
Any merchant (Obama’s campaign in this case is a ‘merchant’) who is accepting payment without these checks had to actively go in and turn these checks OFF. This is easy to do and could probably be done with about 6 clicks in less than 2 minutes (un-checking the boxes that specify these safety checks and clicking ‘Save’). What’s much harder for most folks is making the decision to do this. Most merchants won’t make this decision because they want card holders to be protected.
Anybody who swipes at the pump knows that getting the billing zip right for an authorized purchaser is not hard at all. And it’s a great anti-fraud check.
What gets me about this is that Obama is telling all of us in advance how fantastically careless he intends to be with *your* money!
Ron Robinson
http://www.800Cart.com