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News: Biden supporters exploit Republican’s $1 donation cashback campaign pledge: ‘I gave $1 to you and $20 to Biden’

www.independent.co.uk Biden supporters exploit Republican’s $1 cashback campaign pledge

North Dakota Gov Doug Burgum is offering $20 gift cards to every $1 donor

Republican presidential candidate and North Dakota Gov Doug Burgum is offering $20 gift cards to donors who give $1 to his campaign — but some supporters of Joe Biden say they have been funneling the gift card money to the president’s re-election campaign.

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literally buying votes now. awesome.
- It's not as if that's particularly new; it's just usually dressed up as tax cuts or rebates.

And with that $1 donation, you will be on every campaign email donation list for the Republicans from now until the end of time. Word to the wise: If you ever give your email address to a campaign fund (republican, democrat or otherwise), make sure its an email you don't care about or can shut down. No matter how many times you unsubscribe, they just sell your list to the next campaign and use a slightly different name/email/organization to get around spam laws. I made the mistake of donating to a campaign once. Their overzealous and borderline illegal email marketing is what has made me decide to never donate again.
While this $20 for $1 might sound good, especially in the humorous context of taking that $20 gift card and donating it to an opponent, I'm not willing to give my info to a republican campaign and assume they're going to do the right thing and only use it for campaign related activities. Next thing you know, my name will be on the next FCC astroturf campaign about how I hate net neutrality.
- With Gmail you can add +whatever to your name, and then set a rule to automatically delete those. John.doe+spam@gmail.com works exactly like John.doe@gmail.com
- This is why I now have my own domain. Do a catch all and I can create any address I want at any time and then just throw it away if it won't stop spamming me. Also helps to ID those that sold my info. Or use Anonaddy ( https://anonaddy.com/ ). I use it with Bitwarden.
  
  Yup, I do this too now
- For real. I made the mistake last go-around to donate some money to Dems. Now I get at least 15 grifting emails from Dems every day. Never again.
- The only email I've ever had issues unsubscribing from is Marco's surprisingly. Even it stopped eventually...
  Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future email from you. Your message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future. Craft the notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. Make sure your spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests.
  https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business
  
  The issue isn't unsubscribing itself, it's how they sell / have sold your information. I can unsubscribe, but the next campaign that buys that list from whatever sources they sold it to is just gonna start sending me crap again.

Well, that was kind of a dumb strategy to get donors.
- To get into debates there is a donor threshold. That's what they were buying
  
  What's the negative impact of allowing Dougie into the GOP debates?

How is this legal?
- Because a republican is doing it.
  
  You really think this sort of attempt to skirt campaign finance is only viewed as a problem, "because a republican is doing it?"
  You've lost your marbles.

Buying votes now ? Wow.

[One Twitter user wrote, “I gave @DougBurgum $1 so he would send me $20. Then I gave the $20 to @JoeBiden.” He attached photos of his donations.]
This is actually brilliant.

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