debates – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Sun, 16 Jul 2023 19:29:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack https://noise.getoto.net/2023/07/14/buying-campaign-contributions-as-a-hack/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:09:55 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=67541 The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional ways a candidate can get that many contributors. Doug Burgum came up with a novel idea: buy them:

A long-shot contender at the bottom of recent polls, Mr. Burgum is offering $20 gift cards to the first 50,000 people who donate at least $1 to his campaign. And one lucky donor, as his campaign advertised on Facebook, will have the chance to win a Yeti Tundra 45 cooler that typically costs more than $300—just for donating at least $1...

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