No. of Recommendations: 7
So I picked Electionwatch to sample as a source.
https://electionwatch.info/massive-money-launderin...
Smurfing – Part 3 shows a gentleman in Michigan making 41,842 contributions to political organizations, PACS and/or campaigns. Note the derivatives of the spelling of his name, address, zip code, and occupation status. The Gibson Group of Maryland and Election Watch, Inc. out of Wisconsin continue to expose a national money laundering scheme to political campaigns. Per the Federal Election Commission website, the average number of political donations for an individual is 1.4 per year. Here just one individual is making (or someone is doing it for him) 14.3 per day 365 days per year for more than 7 years.
I guess it's plausible for somebody to make 14 donations a day for 7 years straight, but I kinda doubt it.Found this at Pro Publica:
Election Watch Inc
New London, WI
Tax-exempt since Nov. 2022
EIN: 92-0863109
Organization summary
Type of Nonprofit
Designated as a 501(c)(3) Organizations for any of the following purposes: religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition (as long as it doesn't provide athletic facilities or equipment), or the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.
Category: Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy / Voter Education, Registration (NTEE)
Donations to this organization are tax deductible.
Compensation
Key Employees and Officers Compensation
Peter Bernegger (President) $120,000Which lead to this:
SNIP How one Wisconsin man plagued election offices and stoked mistrust
Peter Bernegger has brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices over alleged fraud –
now he faces criminal chargesPeter Bernegger has spent the last three and a half years bombarding local election offices in Wisconsin with litigation and accusations of fraud. He’s brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices in state court, and on social media, he has relentlessly promoted his litigation and circulated false claims about election fraud in the swing state.
His campaign has recently landed him in legal trouble – Bernegger now faces criminal charges for allegedly falsifying a subpoena in connection with a lawsuit against the state’s top election office.
It’s an escalation for the 61-year-old activist from New London, Wisconsin, who according to court documents, interviews with election officials and emails obtained by the Guardian, has drained election offices of already-limited resources and stoked mistrust in the electoral process in his years-long quest to uncover election fraud.
In the universe of activists who dispute the results of the 2020 election and have spent years searching for evidence of widespread voter fraud, Bernegger’s star power is small. He has not served on a Trump campaign team, no high-powered conservative law firms have taken on his cases and his media appearances are mostly relegated to interviews with fringe podcasts on the rightwing YouTube alternative Rumble.
But his efforts prove that in a country where election offices are chronically underfunded and heavily scrutinized, a single, relatively unknown person can exercise an outsize, and detrimental, impact on election administration....
...In 2022, he went on to promote his claims in front of the state legislature, spending two hours describing his findings to the assembly committee on elections and campaigns.
Now, in Wisconsin’s sprawling community of election workers, Bernegger is known for sending barrages of requests for election-related records and suing when he is dissatisfied with the results. Since 2020, Bernegger, who is not an attorney, has represented himself in his many lawsuits against election clerks and offices,
sometimes abandoning them before they are concluded. In at least two cases, Bernegger’s complaints were dismissed on the grounds that he had simply stopped responding.In 2022, the Wisconsin elections commission voted to fine Bernegger a dollar for every claim of voter fraud the bipartisan group found to be frivolous in nature; his penalties amounted to $2,403. SNIP
ME: There's nothing in the Guardian article that shows he's ever successfully found any fraud. YMMV Dope, but he has the appearance of an unsuccessful hack.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/pe... 