BHO's campaign site now under pressure to prove they have not violated federal campaign election rules by their acceptance of non-AVS (address verification system) credit card donations as reported by several news outlets.
Basically, the AVS is a credit card industry verification system where the card's user and owner are verified to be the same by ensuring the card's usage matches the card's owner private information. By turning off the AVS portion of the credit card acceptance processing, a person could use a credit card and make donations using different names and addresses thereby getting by the federal campaign election donation rules of disclosure and amounts donated.
The Washington Post did an article with Bradley A. Smith, former FEC (federal election commission) chairman, during a Q&A session. The one thing that amazes me is that the elimination of the AVS process on the BHO web site was completely missed.
Mr. Smith even said, which he shows his ignorance, that "these contributions are made by credit card. The campaign therefore has a way to track the real donors, and a legal obligation to report the sources accurately or refund the money. I'm comfortable that will happen. You might say the process is working."
Ahhhh, if the website doesn't use the AVS, then this statement is simply silly.
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