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"Our informant, usually one who does not engage in politics whatsoever, claims that small donors call in to the bank, and get their account credited back with no problem or issues. However, the merchant can delay reconciling of the mischarge by disputing per bank regulations.
If true, our thoughts is that this is done to inflate the single donor numbers to increase theoretical financial support for the campaign, and to report these enlarged numbers to the Federal Election Commission (FEC.)
By the time the money goes back, they can then amend the FEC filings to reflect accurate numbers. However, this would not be done until after the election is over ? so the inaccurate, previously reported numbers will remain in the public eye until they become unimportant."
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