Monday, October 27, 2008
Politics - and the money
The presidential campaigns treat contributions differently.
It's a bit interesting as to which campaign does what, isn't it?...
It's a bit interesting as to which campaign does what, isn't it?...
At the NationalReview.com, Mark Steyn discusses a difference:
"If they'd really wanted 'to be fair', the Times would have pointed out that, in order to accept donations from 'Della Ware' and 'Saddam Hussein' et al, the Obama website had, intentionally, to disable all the default security settings on their credit-card processing. I took a look at the inner sanctum of my (alas, far more modest) online retail operation this afternoon and, in order to permit fraud as easy as that which the Obama campaign is facilitating, you have to uncheck every single box on the AVS system, each one of which makes it very explicit just what you're doing - ie, accepting transactions with no 'billing address', no 'street address' match, no 'zip code' match, with a bank "of non-US origin" (I've got nothing against those, but a US campaign fundraiser surely should be wary), etc. When you've disabled the whole lot one step at a time, then you've got a system tailor-made for fake names and bogus addresses."
