[IWE] obama gaming fundraising limits

[William Oxley]

how hard is it to refuse transactions from the same credit card by  
putting a key constraint via credit card numbers?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/162403
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said the campaign has no idea who the  
individuals are and has returned all the donations, using the credit- 
card numbers they gave to the campaign. (In a similar case earlier  
this year, the campaign returned $33,000 to two Palestinian brothers  
in the Gaza Strip who had bought T shirts in bulk from the campaign's  
online store. They had listed their address as "Ga.," which the  
campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza.) "While no  
organization is completely protected from Internet fraud, we will  
continue to review our fund-raising procedures," LaBolt said. Some  
critics say the campaign hasn't done enough. This summer, watchdog  
groups asked both campaigns to share more information about its small  
donors. The McCain campaign agreed; the Obama campaign did not. "They  
could've done themselves a service" by heeding the suggestions, said  
Massie Ritsch of the Center for Responsive Politics.