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Topic: Dubious donations:
Peter Schweizer responds |
Dubious donations:
Peter Schweizer responds
Power Line, by Scott Johnson
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Original Article
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Posted By:markinalpine, 10/10/2012 11:25:40 AM
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| I called Peter Schweizer to get his comments on each of the five substantive points with which Obama For America has responded to the Government Accountability Institute report released earlier this week. Below are each of the Obama campaign’s substantive points (in italics) with Peter’s response following, based on my notes. 1. All credit card contributions are processed using AN Address Verification System (AVS) to ensure their legitimacy. Peter responds: The problem is that the AVS they are using be set on a scale between 1-12, extremely loose to extremely tight.
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Comments:
Explains the 5 easy ways OFA can cheat, and likely is.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
joew9, 10/10/2012 12:16:10 PM (No. 8923099)
Beware of the idea of a donation "returned".
The only way to "return" the money is to not cash the check or not process the credit card charge. If the money has already been accepted it is nearly impossible to "return" the money.
The Clinton campaign in 1996 was caught not vetting checks and some were determined to be illegal contributions. They returned the money by writing checks and sending them back to the contributors. There was never any indication that the checks got cashed. After all, the contributor wanted to send money to the campaign. The campaign already had the money. So why bother cashing the check to get the money back when they didn't want it back. So the Clinton campaign still had the money to use as they wished. They were so blatant about assuming the returned contribution checks would not be cashed that the account on which the checks were issued never had enough money to cover the checks in the first place.
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