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Genki Hikari

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9. Many small donations are less likely to get attention

Reply to erronis (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 7, 2023, 05:58 AM

Jan 2023

You can have scads of $50 or $100 donations coming from a bunch of seemingly real accounts (that are actually coming from Russia or from some other oligarch here in America), or pay it in bitcoin, and no one's the wiser.

The FEC is woefully behind on all of the ways that scumbags will cheat the system.

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