All they showed is that you can make a donation with a fake name and fake address, using a prepaid card, and you can do it from a foreign IP address. Which of those do you think Romney's site will stop? There is no way to confirm a name or address when using a prepaid VISA gift card, so I can't imagine it will stop that. I guess Romney's site could prevent you from using a foreign IP address, but then you just have to use a Proxy server. Or it prevents Americans outside the country from donating.
Both companies take donations by text message too - so a foreigner could simply buy a burner phone and donate that way. It's fairly minor in the grand scheme of things - the point of no-foreign-donations is to prevent undue influence. But if the people have to be anonymous to do it, they can't really influence anyone. It's also the reason that you have to disclose and verify larger donors.
I have no idea what the Romney site would block. That's why I wrote my original my complaint about the article. I can tell you, since it is part of my lively hood, it's very easy to check the country of origin of an IP address. Yes, they could use proxy server, but just because a security measure can be bypassed doesn't mean you don't implement it. IT doesn't prevent a citizen outside the country from donating. Just ask for more information and be more thorough in your check when someone is donating from outside the country. I would probably not allow someone to use a pre-paid card when donating outside the country...... That's a little too obvious. It's very easy to get the IP address of a receiving text. Same security measures can be implemented.
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IIRC, the user sees the acceptance, but the Obama campaign system flags questionable ones for review and those could eventually be denied, as I am almost certain this one will.
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every day this runs an Excel macro he downloaded on RCP state polling averages and gets close to Silver's ubersophisticated prediction model <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Updated results of simple Monte Carlo EV sim of state polls. Obama at 73% w/ 284 EVs (538 Now-Cast is 75%, 294 EVs). <a href="http://t.co/rB6RU57W" title="http://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/263100511727796226/photo/1">twitter.com/seanmdav/statu…</a></p>— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/263100511727796226" data-datetime="2012-10-30T02:10:24+00:00">October 30, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Romney took an uptick on Silver's model today. I'll predict that by next Monday night, he'll have Romney/Obama at virtually 50/50. LOL
Romney should've just said Italy. http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...en-missing-fiat-sales-target-by-19-billion#p1
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight Just managed to get 538 forecast up before Internet died. Romney 27.1% to win Electoral College, up from 25.4%. http://nyti.ms/cdQdn6 Collapse Reply Retweet Favorite
It is Rasmussen, not sure I would be thrilled with a +2 with a 4 point margin of error if I am Romney. Their polling procedure is antiquated and under represents younger and more savvy voters.
You are amazing. BTW cannot wait to see Romney win the election and then Dwight Howard in Rocket red making his debut.
New instate university poll shows North Carolina tied. The last Elon Poll found Romney leading with 4 percentage points. Obama, Romney tied at 45%
