Two Weeks Before Election Obama Website Finally Stops Taking Contributions From Made-Up Names
After taking online contributions from contributors with the unlikely names of Jgtj Jfggjjfgj, Doodad Pro and (ahem) Ben Dover, it appears as though the Obama campaign has just now instituted security measures to stop such illegal transactions from taking place.
This per a reader at The Corner:
I tried to donate $5 in the name of “Borat Oblama” from “Madeuptown, USA”, using a legit credit card number, and got a screen saying the card didn’t match the address.
Apparently they’ve been shamed into reinstating the security checks.
Apparently, but you have to wonder how much lighter Obama’s campaign coffers would be if the campaign had instituted these security measures all along.
We also have to wonder how much sooner these sort of fraudulent transactions would have been stopped if the media was at all interested in covering a negative story about the Obama campaign. If John McCain had been taking these sort of contributions you can bet the media would have been all over him.
And, perhaps most importantly, we should wonder how many of Obama’s hundreds of millions of unreported (because they were below the $250 minimum threshold for reporting) contributions were from nonsense contributors like those mentioned above.
Quite a few, I’m willing to wager, but what can be done? What’s the FEC going to do if Obama is found to have perpetrated campaign financing fraud on the same scale ACORN has perpetrated voter registration fraud? Are they going to take the White House away from him? Not bloody likely. He’d get some bad press, and slap on the wrist, and that’d be it.
Meaning that Obama has all the incentive in the world to cheat like this, and nothing at all to lose.
