Obama Campaign Makes it Easy for Foreigners to Donate Online

October 8, 2008 by forthardknox
Filed under News and Opinion

A British reader of Warner Todd Huston’s (of the Publius Forum) is running an experiment, to see how easy it is for foreigners to (illegally) donate to U.S. Presidential campaigns.

According to the anonymous donor, The McCain campaign has all sorts of checks in place to raise red flags when a donor is outside the United States, but the Obama campaign apparently does not.

Read all about it at the Publius Forum.

No wonder Obama spent so much time campaigning overseas.

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Tags: '08 Elections, Barack Obama, campaign finance, John McCain

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4 Responses to “Obama Campaign Makes it Easy for Foreigners to Donate Online”

Debbie says:

October 8, 2008 at 11:10 am

There is an investigation, but will anything be done before November 4? Probably not.

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Jenn Sierra says:

October 8, 2008 at 11:15 am

Debbie, I’m sure you’re right. It’s unlikely that anything will be done in time to matter.

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