On Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:04:03 PM UTC-6, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 2/6/2014 1:37 PM, Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:

Now this is truly insane. The National Republican Congressional

Committee is tricking would-be Democratic campaign donors into making

donations to defeat the candidates they support -- with Republican

websites that look like they could easily be the campaign pages of

Democratic candidates.



First, after public backlash, they had to start offering refunds to

donors who'd been misled, and now, Google has put a "reported phishing

website" warning on at least the anti-Alex Sink site.



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...cans-trick-vot

ers-donating-democratic-candidates/





Standard Republican strategy: win elections through committing fraud,

because they know they can't win them by honest means.

the websites appear to violate a Federal Election Commission regulation prohibiting political committees and parties from using a candidate's name in special projects. The FEC considers websites, including microsites, a special project falling under this rule. The only exception is when the site makes it unambiguously clear it is opposed to the candidate. In Ryan's opinion, the page set up under Tierney's name "does not unambiguously show opposition to Tierney." However, he noted, the FEC is "not a nimble organization" and it can take two years to complete an investigation, well past election day.