ActBlue Raises Millions in Suspicious Gift Card Donations
(From Real Clear Politics)
The organization has leveraged its powerhouse presence to negotiate a special relationship with banks so that it does not have to reveal donor names when processing its gift cards, as is normally required for virtually all online transactions.
Some people have long suspected this allows ActBlue or a mega-donor to easily break large donations down into smaller gifts to avoid campaign finance laws and Federal Election Commission scrutiny — once an individual donor or third-party organization has given $200 or more to a candidate, for instance, their information is supposed to be added to a public FEC database for the sake of transparency.
This article was originally posted here: https://www.ac2news.com/2020/09/actblue-raises-millions-in-suspicious-gift-card-donations/.
