House Republicans this week issued a subpoena to Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue as part of an ongoing effort to obtain more information about specific suspicious transactions and the platform's donor vetting process.
In a letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, House Administration Committee Chairman Brian Still (R-Wis.) said in November, the day after this year's General Assembly session, It asked the platform to submit further information on its donor verification processes and policies by the 6th. election.
He said the subpoenas were intended to “protect our elections” and “close loopholes in our campaign finance system,” including donations from donors whose identities are not as rigorously vetted.
The request, sent just days before the presidential election, comes as Republicans have grown concerned about ActBlue's security policies and process for vetting donors. In recent months, we have responded with several policy changes.
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Until recently, the platform did not require online donors to submit a credit card verification value (CVV) when making online donations, but the lack of verification “enables potentially fraudulent and illegal financial activities.” This drew criticism from House Republicans, including Steil, who said, “By foreign donors.
“We cannot allow foreign actors to influence our elections through campaign finance. The Committee's investigation reveals that foreign actors may be taking advantage of ActBlue's inadequate security protocols. ,” Steil said in the letter.
To date, there is no evidence or record of any such activity taking place. Additionally, ActBlue also began requesting CVV numbers in August.
The subpoena request follows a New York Post report this week that the Treasury Department had identified “records of hundreds of transactions” made on apps flagged by banks as potentially suspicious. It was done. The department is currently investigating these records.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said this week that his committee was “working closely with the Treasury Department” to obtain the materials “quickly.”
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Mr. Still and the rest of the House Administration Committee are also working to obtain more information from ActBlue about donations collected in the last month.
Steil sent a letter to the platform on Wednesday requesting information about the platform's donor verification policies and potential vulnerabilities.
He also introduced legislation in September that would require political committees and donation platforms such as ActBlue to adopt stricter vetting processes.
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The bill would also ban the acceptance of donations from prepaid gift cards and adopt bipartisan FEC recommendations prohibiting individuals from “knowingly aiding or abetting any person” to make donations in another person's name. .
The bill passed the committee by voice vote, but has not yet been voted on by the full floor.
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