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In recent weeks, a number of political campaigns and committees have received letters from the Federal Election Commission notifying them that they may have violated federal rules and regulations governing campaign finance, such as inaccurately reporting expenditures or accepting campaign donations in excess of the legal limit from dozens of people.
These letters are not uncommon, and not necessarily indicative of wrongdoing the assumption is that campaigns want to follow the rules but may have made mistakes in the heat of the contest. When the FEC notifies a campaign that it has taken too much money from donors, for instance, the letter lists the names and donation histories of the supporters who gave too much, so the campaign can isolate the over-limit amounts and refund, reattribute or redesignate that money. They have 60 days to do this before they must report back to the FEC.
Some of those lists this year, however, have been exceptionally long a phenomenon that election experts attribute to automated recurring donations over a long and particularly intense campaign season.
For instance, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., received two separate notices last week, one of them 38 pages long and the other 41 pages. Each flagged excessive contributions from around 60 donors, for adjacent reporting periods. Her colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, received a nine-page list that alone flags a total well above $150,000 in excessive donations that the campaign must explain to the FEC.
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(49,389 posts)Indykatie
(3,697 posts)I remember Bernie having pages of them in his 2016 run. You think it would be easy to identify donors that have exceeded the Federal limits for donations but what do I know. The campaigns seem to wait until the FEC notices them and then refund the money, often after the campaigns have ended.