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FPPC Prepares Rulemaking to Tighten Verification for Online Campaign Contributions; Flags Prepaid Cards
Summary
The Fair Political Practices Commission on June 19 discussed proposed rule changes to require stronger identity verification for online campaign contributions and to curb the use of prepaid cards that can be used like cash.
The Fair Political Practices Commission on June 19 discussed proposed regulation changes to tighten verification of online campaign contributions and to address use of prepaid cards for contributions and expenditures.
Senior commission counsel Zachary Norton told the commission enforcement investigators had uncovered instances where multiple contributions appeared to be charged to the same credit card but attributed to different contributors, and where prepaid cards were used to fund committee expenditures outside campaign bank accounts. "These are the issues that were brought to our attention by the enforcement…
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