Monkeynote: This will make absolutely no difference in the election. There will be no prosecution, there will be no justice. The exact same thing happened four years ago - it is going on again. PE are buying the election ... or attempting to ... once again.
cross-posted from Beldin .... #msg-758383
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The lack of standard security features, such as card verification value (CVV) and address verification system (AVS), which are commonly used to verify the legitimacy of online credit card payments, is “incongruous with the acknowledged technological sophistication of the campaign,” the report states.
Additionally, the campaign is willfully paying millions of dollars in higher processing fees by neglecting to install such basic verifications measures. Credit card issuers typically charge a 3.5 percent fee to process payments on websites that do not employ CVV or AVS.
Not using these measures likely cost the Obama campaign about $7 million in additional processing fees in 2008, the GAI estimates.
The campaign’s refusal to secure its online donations is “rather curious,” the report states, given that the campaign employs a number of technology experts who operate websites that use CVV for financial transactions.
“Even more curious,” the report finds, is the fact that the Obama campaign does use CVV to authenticate purchases at its online merchandise shop.
The Obama campaign has claimed the CVV method is unnecessary because it employs its own (undisclosed) techniques to weed out fraudulent donations.
But as the report points out: “This begs the question: why is it using different techniques when it comes to selling campaign merchandise?”
In addition to the Obama campaign’s lack of standard verification measures, the extraordinary foreign interest in President Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, makes the campaign particularly susceptible to illegal foreign donations.
The campaign’s main website, BarackObama.com, receives approximately 43 percent of its traffic from foreign IP addresses, the report found, the majority of which could be from foreign nationals, as opposed to American citizens living abroad.
The level of foreign traffic, according to GAI, “creates significant vulnerabilities for the integrity of the campaign’s donation process.”
The GAI report also found ample evidence suggesting the Obama campaign is actively soliciting donations from foreigners, another violation of federal law.
Foreign citizens frequently receive solicitation letters via my.barackobama.com, the campaign’s social media platform created in part by Facebook cofounder and current owner and editor in chief of the New Republic Chris Hughes.
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Report: Foreign Nationals Donating to Obama Campaign
Campaign also accused of soliciting foreign donations in groundbreaking new Government Accountability Institute report
By Andrew Stiles
The Washington Free Beacon
October 8, 2012 8:56 am
http://freebeacon.com/report-foreign-nationals-donating-to-obama-campaign/
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