ActBlue donations could be enormous online fundraising scandal

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Both President-elect Trump and Vice President Harris’ campaigns raised hundreds of millions of dollars in their bids for the White House, with a significant portion coming from online sources. One of the largest Democratic fundraising platforms, ActBlue, is now under investigation by a House committee and multiple state attorneys general over allegations of illegal donations. A Republican strategist from Wisconsin even claims that ActBlue stole his identity to make hundreds of donations to left-wing causes.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich explains how ActBlue’s alleged identity theft and illegal contributions from foreign actors can undermine election integrity and calls this a scandal we should all watch closely.

The following is an excerpt from the above video:

ActBlue is the remarkably successful online fundraising system that the Democrats have been developing now for years. This year, it probably will raise a billion dollars off of credit cards. People get on it. They can pick the candidate they want to support. Sometimes they get on a recurring basis, you know, $20 a week or $50 a month. And it’s been very successful.

Except it now turns out that a part of ActBlue may be open to fraud on a pretty grand scale. Of the billion dollars that has been raised so far on ActBlue in this election cycle, $400 million was raised without learning what the security code on the credit card was. Now, if you look at your credit card, you have that little security code. The reason that’s there is it’s proof that it’s really you, because people can lift the actual card number, but if they don’t have that security code, they can’t prove that it’s a valid card. Well, ActBlue does not require the security code.

Now, why does that matter? Because somebody can hack in, take your card. It’s basically identity theft in the classic sense.