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The New York Times has once again published an article citing a Newsmax story that first raised questions about Barack Obama’s fundraising.
In a Friday story headlined “Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records,” The Times disclosed that an analysis of campaign finance records “this week found nearly 3,000 donations to Mr. Obama … from more than a dozen people with apparently fictitious donor information.”
One contributor used the name “Jgti Jfggjjfgi” and listed an address of “thjtrj” in “gjtjtjtjtjtjr, AP.”
The contributions represent a tiny fraction of the record $450 million Mr. Obama has raised.
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It is unclear why someone making a political donation would want to enter a false name. Some perhaps did it for privacy reasons. Another, more ominous possibility, of course, is fraud, perhaps in order to donate beyond the maximum limits.
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There is no evidence that questionable contributions amount to anything more than a small portion of Mr. Obama’s fund-raising haul.
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Although campaigns have long wrestled with questionable donations, Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said the record-setting number of new donors Mr. Obama has drawn, many of them online, presents new challenges to a compliance system that remains stuck in the past.
Ms. Krumholz pointed out, however, that it would take an extraordinary amount of coordination to pull off widespread fraud.
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The Obama campaign refunded several thousand dollars in contributions to the two donors, even before receiving the letters from the F.E.C. But its campaign finance filing in September showed it had failed to refund more than $10,000 in donations from each of them, although Obama officials say all of the money has now been returned.
Besides the fact that newsmax doesn't post a link to the NY Times article (obviously doesn't want its readers to see the context) the free speech right of donors that McCain has stymied (against all republican beliefs) has created a moronic system that requires far too much government bureaucracy to uphold. McCain - Feingold is a slap in the face to conservatism and is now a slap in the face to McCain himself.
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