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A woman named Jane B. from a Southern state was discovered to have 20 different spellings of her name, five different street address numbers, and three different zip codes.
“This is commonly found in Wisconsin,” Mr. Bernegger wrote.
Under these variations, Jane B. purportedly made 18,654 campaign contributions from 2015 through 2022 to candidates across the country. She supposedly averaged 7.3 donations per day, 365 days per year, for seven years.
Of the 10,200 high-frequency donors that Election Watch identified across the nation, almost all are middle-class, white, retired, or otherwise not employed and range in age from their late 60s to their 90s.
Election Watch researchers used readily available public and commercial information sources to study each of the above individuals in order to create a demographic profile.
They had all donated to candidates and political action committees in the past. Then, allegedly without the donors' knowledge or consent, their names and addresses were used again and again to make multiple political contributions.
From the personal interviews with the donors, investigators learned that very few, if any, of the donations attributed to their names are paid with their own credit cards.
Many have said that their monthly credit card statements show no unusual charges.
It's the practice of most credit card companies to immediately notify the cardholder if suspicious activities are spotted on the customer's account.
The donors interviewed by Election Watch report receiving no such notifications.
The Election Watch complaint states that large, well-organized political fundraising organizations not only serve as conduits for contributions but also act as credit card processors.
Entities such as ActBlue for Democrats and WinRed for Republicans may legally choose to not verify credit cards, pre-paid credit cards, debit cards, virtual cards, overseas cards, and gift cards that are used in millions of transactions. //
nonprodigal
1 day ago
We live in a nation that once had Judeo-Christian values. People could be trusted to tell the truth and be honest, that’s why we never painted people’s thumbs purple after they voted. As our nation becomes increasingly godless, those values are disappearing but the unscrupulous among us are taking advantage of the fact that our system of laws never assumed that the majority of the populace are lawbreakers. We are witnessing what John Adams warned about when he said our Constitution “was written for a religious and moral people”. We are no longer such a people. We should expect that the demise of our country will occur and any hope of avoiding it is foolish thinking. The premise that one reaps what they sow can never be repealed.